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The Cowboy Chronicle
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The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society
Vol. 22 No. 12
© Single Action Shooting Society, Inc.
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December 2009
A SASS Double Feature
Headquarters and
Bustup at Boomtown
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By Grey Fox, SASS Life Regulator #223, and Miss Mary Spencer, SASS Life #55147
ictoria & Courtenay, BC
– Better than two BWesterns at the Saturday
matinee, couple the oldest
SASS affiliated match in Canada to
the newest cowboy town, and you
have events that equal any on the
SASS circuit.
Like the matinees of old, western dress and blazing six-guns were
the order of the day on each occasion. The concept of two events, the
last weekend of August and the first
weekend of September, was a fine
stroke of genius.
The shootists descended on
Vancouver’s Island to shoot and
vacation. Life can’t get much better.
As Gus said in Lonesome Dove, “the
older the violin, the sweeter the
music” and the 18th Annual
Headquarters of 2009 proved to be
one of the best ever. Salmonella
Gulch was hopping with miscreants
at Lean Laura’s, others attempting
to rob the Express Office, and on it
went. Once more Cornelius O’Keefe
See HIGHLIGHTS on pages 70, 71
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from Germany presided over the mid
and long range event and the much
coveted Schutzen target.
The SASS Canadian Regional,
“Bustup at Boomtown,” was pure
Robert Service, the gold rush poet.
The Friday night festivities included
a steak BBQ and entertainment pro-
SASS Cowboy Chronicle
In This Issue
60 GEttiNG StartEd
oN a ShoEStriNG
by Tuolumne Lawman
78 Billy thE Kid’S
BrEaKout
by Sgt. Shuster
82 yElloWStoNE
Buffalo StaMpEdE
by Doc Weed
england
regional
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Article & Highlights
on pages 72 -75
215 Cowboy Way
Edgewood, NM 87015
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vided by the Boomtown Thespian
Society performing Robert Service’s
“The Shooting of Dan McGrew.”
Everett Hitch’s quote from
Appaloosa “we do gun work because
we are better at it” and good gun work
there was. The main stages were all
Yukon themes, including “The
new
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70, 71 CaNadiaN rEGioNal
by Grey Fox
The Grey Fox, impersonating Appaloosa’s Everett Hitch character,
cut a dashing figure and made lots of smoke in a very traditional
way. Grey Fox’s enthusiastic, long time involvement in Cowboy
Action Shooting™, his love for the “old ways,” and his adherence
to costuming from the very beginning are all factors that
contributed to his induction into the
SASS Cowboy Action Shooting™ Hall of Fame, Class of 2009.
Cremation of Sam McGee” and other
Robert Service favorites. The stage
props were superb. The action was fast
and stages very shootable. Boomtown
has the finest buildings, mine shaft,
and fort. Saturday’s dinner with side
match and costume awards was a credit to any SASS event.
Sunday’s action was a little
damp; however, it moved along with
spirit and enthusiasm. The Sunday
dinner and main match winner
awards was splendid dining with
majestic views of the mountains and
Comox Lake. Costuming was excellent, and the array of awards breathtaking. The winners list for Head(Continued on page 70)
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FROM THE EDITOR Range Operations Revisited . . .
NEWS The 2010 Hodgdon Annual Manual . . . Beretta’s Fastest Gun Alive . . .
LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . .
CAT’S CORNER What Women Wore: A Primer For CAS (Cowgirls) . . .
COYOTE DROPPINGS What Happened To 2009 ? . . .
POLITICAL The Second: Unalienable Or Inalienable? . . .
ARTICLES 50th Clean Match . . . Cowboytalk . . . Sidekicks & Heavies . . .
GUNS & GEAR No Fair . . . What’s The Call? . . . The Capgun Kid Rides . . .
SASS END OF TRAIL Is A Commin’ (Sign Up Now!) . . .
PROFILES In Memory Of Ripshin (TG, Regulator) . . .
HISTORY Tales of Early California (Solomon Pico & Zorro) . . . Famous People . . .
REVIEWS PRODUCTS Getting Started In CAS On A Shoestring . . .
TRAIL MARKER To Be Remembered . . .
ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . .
CLUB REPORTS Bunkhouse Bidness . . .
SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . . .
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Judge has finished his cancer treatments, has the
tubes out, and is getting a
new set of teeth … he’s
down to “fighting weight”
… and with a little luck will
stabilize and be as feisty as
ever! The Judge plans to
attend the Convention …
and hang out in the
Riviera’s Judge Roy Bean
Saloon, day and night, until
Kate pulls his kitchen pass
… come by and say hello!
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range operations
, Revisited ,
By Tex, SASS #4
Tex, SASS #4
~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~
have noticed a number of
instances in the past couple of years of “questionable” range operations activities by
Match Directors and their key staff.
Any time match organizers have
prior knowledge of match stages,
whether they “practice” the stages
or not, there is both a real and perceived “unfair advantage” for these
officials, especially if they plan to
shoot the match (and win).
Unfortunately, many clubs turn
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to their top shooters to design and
administer their matches. These
same top shooters are the ones who
are motivated to do just that …
they know what constitutes a good
match, and they want a match that
is fun for them. Unfortunately,
after they do all that, it’s unfair for
them win their own event.
I’m very sensitive to this particular issue … in the early days of
SASS, I belonged to The West End
Outlaws, the second oldest Cowboy
Action Shooting™ Club in the
United States. West End had its
first annual match in October 1982.
West End chose to publish its
match stages prior to the match …
so everyone knew what to expect …
no surprises!
In those early days, none of us
really knew what we were doing …
so the club chose to shoot the stages
a few times … to “test for safety
issues.” We quickly learned after
running through a stage a few
times, our shooting times were drastically reduced! Many of the early
Cowboy Action Cham pions were
West End Outlaws!
Everyone quickly understood
this was bad practice … it gave those
from the “home club” an unfair
advantage over the other competitors. It became common practice to
keep the stages “under wraps” until
the match so everyone saw them at
the same time … and everyone’s first
run was for official time.
In the early days we had several
instances where Match Directors
won their own match. This was
deemed inappropriate for a number
of reasons. First of all, the “natural”
thing for anyone to do is design
stages that accommodate the designer’s strengths. Secondly, even if they
had not practiced the stages, they
were able to “dry run” them mentally many times prior to the event …
once again providing an “unfair
advantage.” Bill Oglesby, an excellent competitor and match designer
of the Mid-West Regional many
years ago, won his own match, but
set his scores aside and proceeded to
recognize winners from the rest of
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the competitors. This was a very
classy move that was much appreciated by everyone. (It’s fine for the
Match Director to shoot his own
match … that’s about all the “pay
back” or “reward” he’s going to get …
but it’s poor form for the Match
Director to win his own match.)
Safe stages are a must at every
event. However, today we have
enough experience and the benefit of
RO-II training to quickly determine
the appropriateness of a stage simply by looking at it. If there are concerns, a walkthrough by a few experienced RO-II’s will usually complete
the review. Shooting the stages is no
longer required or appropriate.
In those rare instances where
special props are being introduced
for the first time, SASS has found
the best way to ensure these props
are going to withstand the rigors of a
match, not impede the flow of the
match, or introduce unexpected safety issues is to use the props in a few
monthly matches prior to the “big
event.” Scenarios similar, but different, from the ones planned for the
big event can be used without jeopardizing the fairness of the big event.
The Wild Bunch developed an
internal policy for ourselves that
whoever was exposed to the stages
prior to END of TRAIL was not eligible to shoot and win the match.
We’ve gotten so old and slow, none
of us are a threat anymore, so we
now feel free to review and critique
the END of TRAIL stages and still
shoot the match!
Remember … practicing match
stages at the home range before a
big match is cheating. Mentally
practicing the stages for weeks is
just as bad. Cheating is an ethics
issue … and everyone knows, when
it comes to ethics, even the appearance of impropriety must be avoided. Don’t put your top shooters in
jeopardy by being too lazy to have a
match committee design the “big
match” for everyone!
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BERETTA’S FASTEST GUN ALIVE
allon, NV – Beretta’s 2009 Fastest
Gun Alive – World Championship of
Cowboy Fast Draw results are in from
Fallon, NV, and Gil Guerra Jr. a.k.a.
“Master Gunfighter” (Cisco, SASS
#7590), of Alta Loma, CA is the Overall
Men’s World Champion. Winning the
Women’s Title is Dinah Eilrich a.k.a.
“Alotta Lead,” of Fernley, NV.
The event was held over the course
of three days with 144 of the top competitors from 20 states and Canada
competing for the title of Beretta’s
Fastest Gun Alive. Cowboy Fast Draw
is a fast growing sport that uses sixguns and holsters from the time period
of the American Old West. Wax bullet
ammunition is used that moves as fast
as live ammunition, but is safely
trapped by a backstop system. This
allows championship contests to be held
in a wide variety of venues. Gun safety
is always the number one concern.
This is the second year the Fallon
Tourism Board has sponsored and hosted the event at the Churchill County
Fairgrounds – Rodeo Arena, with
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Rounding out the Top Five Men Finals were Howard Darby a.k.a. “Spinner” of Calgary, Canada; Jon Wilson a.k.a.
“Trickshot” of Sierra Madre, CA; Mark Compton a.k.a. “Straight Shot” of Nampa, ID; and Bob Grilli a.k.a. “Frontier
Bob” of Martinez, CA. The Women’s Top Five included Annette Coffman a.k.a. “Miss B. Haven” of Caldwell, ID;
Stormie Mernickle a.k.a “Stormie Weather” of Fernley, NV; Shirley Coffman a.k.a. “Legally Loaded” of Caldwell, ID;
and Donna Sundbye a.k.a. “Lady Drifter” of Caldwell, ID.
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GREY FOX MAKES
A MISTAKE!
By Grey Fox, SASS #223
he last line in the
article
about
Boom Town appearing
in the October Cowboy
Chronicle should not
have included the
word “Western.” It
should simply be
referred to as the
SASS Canadian Regional. The Grey Fox
apologizes for this
inaccuracy and seeks
forgiveness for anybody offended.
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~ DONNA ~
Winners
Overall
Man
Lady
Categories
Traditional
L Traditional
49’r
L 49’r
Senior
L Senior
S Senior
Cisco, SASS #7590 of
Alta Loma, CA
Alotta Lead,
SASS #20052 of
Fernley, NV
L S Senior
Old Timers
Shootist
Junior
Peter Mattson of
Superior, WI
Annette Coffman of
Caldwell, ID
Mark Compton of
Nampa, ID
Alotta Lead
Jim Vonfledt of
Portland, OR
Maggie Skoog of
Pogosa Springs, CO
Buzzard Cooper,
SASS #17937
of Star, ID
Beretta USA as the Title Sponsor.
Cisco began shooting the original
type of Fast Draw in 1968 and has
won several World Championships,
including two previous “Fastest Gun
Alive” titles. Cisco currently is starring in the Television Show called
“Impossible Shots,” which is shown
each Wednesday on the Outdoor
Channel. He performs various trick
shots that showcase his talent with a
six-gun. Even though he has had
over 40 years of competitive experience, this was his first major tournament in the Sport of Cowboy Fast
Draw. It is truly an incredible accomplishment to win the sport’s biggest
title on the first attempt!
L Junior
Billy the Kid
Annie Oakley
Top Couple
Top Club
Joan Rigglesman of
Fallon, NV
Bob Gilli of
Martinez, CA
Mississippi Marshal,
SASS #48655 of
Idaho City, ID
Alex Armitage of
Reno, NV
Erica Watkins of
Los Banos, CA
Oliver Johnson of
Idaho City, ID
Elyssa Long of
Star, ID
Quick Cal, SASS #2707,
and Alotta Lead of
Fernley, NV
Great Basin Gun
Hawks of
Fernley, NV
Alotta Lead has been involved in
the sport for over 18 years, and this is
her 10th World Fast Draw Championship. She is also the current
National
Cowboy
Fast
Draw
Champion winning that title in June
in Idaho City, ID. She was this year’s
defending champion and is the first
person to repeat back-to-back years
for the title of Fastest Gun Alive.
Alotta Lead is also an artist and has
been commissioned to create hundreds
of pencil portraits over her career.
For more information on the fast
growing sport of Cowboy Fast Draw or for
complete results of Beretta’s Fastest Gun
Alive go to: www.cowboyfastdraw.com.
Or, contact the Cowboy Fast Draw
Association at 775-575-1802.
(714) 269-9899
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WHO IS THE
KILLINGEST GUNFIGHTER IN THE
OLD WEST?
here is an article in the History
section on page 50 of the
September Cowboy Chronicle by
Seven Ladders. He put the following statement under the picture:
“Killin’ Jim Miller … is reputed
to have at least a dozen kills, the
most of any Old West Gunfighter.”
What! Hasn’t he heard of John
Wesley Hardin, who killed something like 42 men?
I don’t want to make a hero out
of Wes Hardin, but it’s obvious to
me The Cowboy Chronicle should correct this.
Just Google John Wesley
Hardin on the Internet. You’ll find
everyone agrees the number to be
between 20 and 44.
In his autobiography, Wes
Hardin himself claims 42. A recent
biography (The Last Gunfighter –
John Wesley Hardin) by Richard
Marohn agrees Hardin’s list is a
“fairly accurate tally of the men
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killed by John Wesley Hardin.”
(See page 299 and the list is on
page 300.)
In “The Shooters” by Leon
Claire Metz, Metz claims on page
258 Hardin had killed about 30 persons by the time he was 21.
An example from the Internet:
http://americanhistory.suite101.co
m/article.cfm/john_wesley_hardin
John Wesley Hardin: The
Gunfighter
The Meanest Man in Texas
© Jim Osborn
In the 1800’s in the American
Wild West, John Wesley Hardin was
an active and prolific cold-blooded
killer who shot over 40 men.
Bottom line is the last thing I
want to do is start a debate or glorify the killings of Wes Hardin or
anybody else. But a statement like
“Killin’ Jim Miller … is reputed to
have at least a dozen kills, the
most of any Old West Gunfighter”
in a publication like The Cowboy
Chronicle is going to get some attention. I’ll bet I’m not the only cowboy to comment.
Tex Fiddler, SASS #10127
Valencia, CA
Seven Ladders’ Response:
Yes the killings of John Wesley
Hardin are controversial. I personally think they number about sixty.
But what are we to believe?
Hardin’s autobiography? I think it
was designed to lessen the murders, but others think it was
designed to enhance the murders!
An Englishman, Bruce Landers,
who specializes in WW-II “ace” confirmed kills of fighter pilots sees
only eight confirmed kills for
Hardin.
One thing is a fact: we must not
trust Hardin’s autobiography.
So, what biographers Metz and
Marohn say will always be different than me, but the basic point
here is not what John Wesley
Hardin admitted. A high or a low
number doesn’t matter. A higher
number is Jim Brown’s admission
before he was swung off his feet by
vigilantes in Ada, Oklahoma, in
1909, “Let the record show I have
killed fifty-one men!”
I don’t think he was in competition with his wife’s distant cousin,
John Wesley Hardin. I think he
was admitting something closer to
the truth. The major difference
between Miller and Hardin, however, goes far beyond that. Hardin’s
murders were belt buckle-to-belt
buckle bar fights, usually drunk,
whereas Miller’s were mostly shotgunning in the dark on a lonely
trail. I feel Miller was a far more
complex, deadly character than
even John Wesley Hardin. I eagerly await a new biography on James
Brown Miller, due out shortly.
Seven Ladders, SASS #75112
Austin, TX
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FOUNDATION
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THE
DIFFERENCE!
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A CORRECTION FOR
LITTLE KNOWN
FAMOUS PEOPLE
ARIZONA BILL
oe Fasthorse has a small history
article on page 55 of the October
issue, about Raymond Hatfield
Gardner. In it, he states, “In the late
1890s, he (Gardner) served as an
Arizona Ranger …”
This statement contains two
errors. First, the Arizona Rangers
were not authorized until 1901, and
were disbanded in 1909. Second,
only 107 men served as Rangers, and
Gardner’s name is not on the list.
(Reference: “The Arizona Rangers,”
by Bill O’Neil, Eakin Press, 1987.)
The list of names is on page 181 of
the paperback edition.
This information can be verified
at the Arizona Historical Society,
Arizona Heritage Center, Tucson,
AZ, Ranger file.
Now I know this is pretty trivial, but it does show some of us
read The Cowboy Chronicle pretty
darn close, especially when it
comes to history!
J
Lawdog Ranger,
SASS Life #9539
Cheektowaga, NY
Fasthorse’s Response: It gives
me great pleasure to learn we have
devoted fans that read “Little Known
Famous People!” My reference material for the Arizona Bill article was
from “Legends of America.” I have
further researched the Arizona
Rangers and find that Lawdog
Ranger is right about my time line.
The reference material from
“Legends of America” reads, “In
1892, he was an entertainer in
Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show
and would LATER, serve as a U.S.
Deputy Marshal and an Arizona
Ranger.” My interpretation reads
“In the late 1890’s, he served as an
Arizona Ranger and a U.S. Deputy
Marshal.” I thank Lawdog for pointing out my mistake.
Since I have not yet read The
Arizona Rangers book I cannot comment on the list of names that
appears on page 181. However, I did
find a web site,
http://www.azrangers.org/graves.html,
that lists the Ranger Grave Sites of
the 107 original Territorial Arizona
Rangers, and Raymond Hatfield
“Arizona Bill” Gardner does not
appear on this list. So, it looks like
Lawdog is right again!
THANKS, AND
CORRECTION
irst of all I want to thank Sgt.
Shuster for his fine review of
the final book in my “Doc”
Holliday trilogy, Death Takes a
Holliday, in the October issue of
The Cowboy Chronicle. His work is
much appreciated.
Also, I’d like to make a correction to the above mentioned review
which I’m sure was just a transposition of numbers. John Henry
“Doc” Holliday died in the year
1887, not 1878.
Thanks again to all involved
for yet another great issue of The
Cowboy Chronicle.
Ash Wednesday, SASS #44581
Pearce, AZ
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GOOD EXPERIENCE!
fter reading a letter in the last
Cowboy Chronicle from ExMember from Dewey, AZ, I was surprised any group of Cowboys would
be that way. Everyone should be
welcome.
Speaking as a new SASS member with the Zen Shootists in Iowa, I
was welcomed with open arms. Like
most newbie’s I struggled in certain
areas, but Cap Horn, club President,
and all the members of the club have
offered the shirts off their backs to
help out. Well, maybe not, as I don’t
think I want to see them shirtless!
My wife and I just finished our
first State Shoot and only our 4th
match, and brother, are we hooked! I
want to thank all Cowboys and
Cowgirls everywhere for making our
experience a great one.
Alaska Jack, SASS #84574
Bondurant, Iowa
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December 2009
NEW LOCATION,
SAME GREAT
PEOPLE
eptember 17-20 was the annual Ruckus in the Nations
match hosted by the Indian
Territory Single Action Shooting
Society
(ITSASS)
in
Sand
Springs, Oklahoma.
I have
attended the last three Ruckus
matches, but missed this one due
to family health issues. However,
I did drive to the match Saturday
to see my friends and to see their
new range.
A few months ago this club
found itself without a range, but
their spirit would not let them
fade away like other clubs may
have done. Thanks to the Red
Castle Gun Club, they secured a
range site, and thanks to the hard
work and dedication of ITSASS’s
strong and hard working members, in a short time they have
constructed a wonderful Cowboy
Action Shooting™ range.
Just like the recovery from
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the dust bowl a century or so ago,
or the rebuilding after the most
devastating tornado on earth, or
the mental recuperation after the
worst attack of domestic terrorism to ever foul American soil,
Okies do what Okies do. They collect themselves, pull on their
boots, roll up their sleeves, and go
to work. Blood, sweat, and tears
fell to the northeastern Oklahoma
dirt like many times before, and
from this nourishment grew a
range any club would be proud of.
I love the people, and I love
the range. Over a super bean and
cornbread lunch (I’m not sure who
made the beans, but they were
wonderful), I got to catch up with
folks I haven’t seen in awhile and
got to hear about future plans for
the club and range. As I drove out
the gate and headed home, I
thought to myself that I had witnessed the birth of something special. You cannot suppress the
“Spirit of the Game” or the “Spirit
of Oklahoma.”
Notso Slim, SASS #67301
Norman, OK
WHAT’S WITH ALL
THE SMOKE?
By Cree Vicar Dave,
SASS Life #49907
TG Sucker Creek, Michigan
would like to thank Capt. George
Baylor for his articles on shooting
“Blackpowder.” I just switched over
to the “Smokey Side” and need all
the help I can get. Capt. Baylor’s
hints have been quite helpful for me
as I wade out deeper into the fog.
Like the great majority of all
Cowboy Action Shooters, he strives
to help others achieve their best.
Keep up the good work, Captain,
and God Bless.
[email protected]
I
GIVE TO THE
SASS SCHOLARSHIP
FOUNDATION
MAKE
THE DIFFERENCE!
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WhAt Women WoRe:
a primer For CowBoy aCtion sHootingtm
. CoWgiRlS ,
Chapter 4 – The Natural Form
Era: 1875(6) – 1882
Cat Ballou, SASS #55
~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~
y the later 1870s, the
wire-framed bustle had
disappeared and the
poufs in the skirts lowered to knee-length. Flatness and
straightness were the latest buzz
words. Asymmetry was reintroduced along with new approaches
to draping and to trimming.
Fashions featured a tight fitting silhouette with fullness as low as the
knees. As the decade ended, skirts
became narrower and narrower as
bodices became longer and longer,
reaching below the hips.
Silhouette / Skirts
The horizontal look of the
early 1870’s was replaced with vertical lines. Tie-back skirts became
very popular. These skirts had
string ties inside that were gathered to hold the front of the skirt
close to the legs while allowing the
back to remain full and flow into a
train. Almost every dress was
trained, even walking dresses.
Trains were often detachable and
were decorated on the underside
with elaborate frills of lace. This
was called a balayeuse and could
be removed for cleaning.
The detached overskirt was
replaced with drapes, swags,
and trimmings that were
sewn directly onto the foundation skirt. Flowers and
bows were added to hide the
stitching. Skirts were sometimes
asymmetrical
in
design with trims and swags
high on one side and lower
on the other.
By 1880 the skirts
B
Tijuana Rose, SASS# 72944,
models a purple taffeta
dress featuring a fantail
skirt with a knife-pleated
hem, ribbons, beads, and
appliquéd accents.
By Miz Annie Ross, SASS #60919
were very slim, and trains
began to disappear to be
replaced by pannier drapes at
the hips that added fullness.
Bodices:
Fashions of the Natural
Form Era are characterized by
the Cuirass(e) bodice. This
bodice style (named for a style
of French armor) was smooth
fitting and extended below the
waist. By 1878, the cuirass
bodice had reached the thighs
and continued to dip even deeper in both front and back,
extending well below the hips.
By 1880, the cuirass bodice
reached the hemline, actually
becoming the Princess panel
dress, an exceptionally form-fitting draped sheath dress that
was elongated even further by
the train.
Bodices now featured more
vertical trimmings, extending
down the front to the
waist or lower. These
long, figure-hugging
bodices emphasized
the lady’s figure, a figure that she helped
create with a very
heavily boned
corset.
T h e
bodice
also displayed
t h e
outline of the corseted
hips, a sight not
seen since the
beginning of the
19th century.
T h e
bodice
shoulder
l i n e
moved up
to the natural shoulder line for
both day and evening wear.
Evening bodices usually had
a square neckline. Necklines for
daywear became more conservative, either high with a collar, or
open in a small V. An open neckline usually featured a decorative collar with a chemisette
beneath it for day wear.
Closure:
Hooks and eyes or buttons
ran down the front of day dresses. Closures were often in the
back for evening dresses and
La Bandida, SASS #80163,
wears a gown of navy blue
satin and sheer with
sequins, beading, and
a brocade train.
The gown is detailed
with navy satin sashes
and red and white
fabric roses.
back lacing was still popular.
Skirts were usually closed with a
hook and eye or button at the waistline.
Accessories:
Gloves were a status symbol for a
Victorian lady, and she wouldn’t dream
of going outside without them.
Short gloves were worn at the beginning of the era, increasing to mid-length
(four-to-eight buttons) by its close.
Gloves up to eight buttons in length
were worn in
the evenings.
Hats:
Hats of felt,
wool, and straw
became larger
and
covered
most of the hair,
often allowing
only the front (or
bangs) and a
simple low bun
at the back of the
head to be seen.
Hats were
now more often
tipped
backwards
rather
than forward as
in earlier years.
Wreaths,
Cat Ballou, SASS #55,
flower sprays,
wears a scarlet satin
or ribbons were
and moire gown,
worn in the
created by
hair in the
Miss Tabitha of
evening.
River Crossing,
Hairstyles:
based on an 1882
Hairstyles
design. The bodice
were looser and
features shirring in
fuller. A bun at
the front, but it is the
the nape of the
skirt that is more elabneck and bangs,
orate with ruching,
a simple style
panniers embellished
influenced by
with beads at the hips,
the actress Lily
and knife-pleating
Langtry,
was
along the hem.
often worn for
day. For evening, the hair was up-swept
with floral and/or ribbon accents.
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December 2009
Coyote
With Coyote Calhoun
Droppings
wHat Happened to
! 2009? }
By Coyote, SASS #201
Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201
don’t know what happened
to this year. It seems as if
it just rode off into the
sunset like the hero of a classic
western movie. It was gone before
you got to say good-bye. I guess
years are like that. It seems as if
we just crowned Badlands Bud and
Holy Terror as not only our new
Overall National Champions at
Winter Range, but also our new
Overall World Champions at END
of TRAIL. It is just amazing how
I
well these two “Kids” shoot. (I can
call them kids because I’m much
older than they are!) But now, a
new year is approaching, and it is
time to do it all over again.
In 2008 we survived four dollar
a gallon fuel prices. This year we
have survived some of the worst
economic times in this country’s
history. Although SASS has not
been immune to the economic down
turn, we have seen some of our
long-term projects come to fruition
this year. We have made the move
into the New SASS World Head(Continued on next page)
December 2009
quarters in Edgewood, New Mexico.
This project had been in the planning stages for over five years and
was finally realized. The sad part
of the move was we lost some great
employees that did not make the
move with us, but the up side is we
have hired some great new employees and have a much more efficient
office to serve members.
Also in 2009, the town at
Founders Ranch has become more
of what we all envisioned six years
ago when work began. With the
addition of the Copper Queen
Hotel and the enclosure of the Bell
Union Saloon, the “Cowboy Town”
is taking on an identity unto itself.
This year was a banner year
for the SASS National Shooting
Program. The program is stronger
than ever. Although
the economy, a severe
shortage of reloading
materials, and scarce
ammunition were the
cause for a few
matches to drop in
attendance,
most
reports showed overall attendance at
championship matches was up. We awarded State Champion ship buckles in all
fifty states and in
thirteen
Regional
Championships,
inclu d ing
Canada,
Europe,
Australia,
and New Zealand.
And of course, we
awarded our National
Cham pion ship
at
Winter Range and our
World Championships
at END of TRAIL. We
also,
recognized
Blackpowder State and Regional
Championships. Next year there
will be more, but next year is for
next month’s article.
One of my projects literally
came on line this year, the
Members Only Web Page. It had a
rocky start, but who could figure so
many members would try to register at once? It is running smoothly
now, and I hope all have had a
chance to visit it. If not, you are
missing shooting tips for Action
and Mounted Shooting along with
other general videos. There are
back issues of The Cowboy Chronicle
for 2008 and 2007, with more to be
added shortly. And, speaking of The
Cowboy Chronicle, there is an on line
version of the current issue just for
members only. We also have a large
collection of directions for building
props, and there is also eight years
worth of stages from END of TRAIL
with more to be added. The stages
alone could save you from writing
monthly stages for your club for a
year, and we have more planed for
next year, but again, that is for next
month’s column.
2009 has been a good year, and
we are going to make 2010 even
better with your help. We are so
thankful for all the members that
make SASS successful. To every
volunteer that helps at a monthly
match, to Territorial Governors
who take the time to come to Las
Vegas and Territorial Governor’s
meetings around the country, and
to every member that takes the
time to help in any way … you are
the people that make SASS successful, and the Wild Bunch
thanks you for all you do!
VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE
AT WWW.SASSNET.COM
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tHe seCond:
UNALIENABLE OR INALIENABLE?
By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025
Colonel Dan,
SASS Life #24025
arly next year, the US Supreme
Court is scheduled to hear
McDonald v. Chicago—a monumental case for gun owners everywhere. Why? It will address the
critical question of the Second
Amendment’s applicability at the
state and local level. For those who
thought Heller vs. D.C. settled this,
recall that Heller only considered
D.C. gun laws. The anti-gunners
position in the McDonald case
revolves around the argument D.C.
E
is not a state but a federal district.
Therefore, while the Second may
apply at the federal level, it does
not apply at the state and local
level. The decision in this upcoming case will not only concern
Chicago, but will also impact every
state in the union. McDonald is
therefore much more important
than Heller.
Keep in mind the Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals has
already ruled the Second does
NOT apply to state or local governments; ergo, the question is being
reviewed by the Supreme Court.
I’ll
leave
arguments
on
Constitutional law to those most
qualified and instead focus on a
question I feel is at the very foundation of the Second Amendment—
is man’s right to bear arms an
unalienable
right—a
Creator
endowed right that cannot be
infringed upon or is it an inalienable right subject to state control?
Let’s define our terms. In
many legal circles there is a big
difference between unalienable
and inalienable, and it could be
significant in this and future
cases. I consulted several legal
references and came up with the
following:
“Unalienable: incapable of being
alienated, that is, sold and trans-
ferred.” Black’s Law Dictionary,
Sixth Edition, page 1523:
You cannot surrender, sell, or
transfer unalienable rights under
any circumstances. They are a gift
from the Creator to ALL individuals.
Inalienable rights: Rights that
are not capable of being surrendered or transferred without the
consent of the one possessing such
rights. Morrison vs. State, Mo
App., 252 S.W.2d 97, 101.
You can surrender, sell, or
transfer inalienable rights by consent—consent legally coming via
the vote of elected representatives,
no doubt. Inalienable rights are
December 2009
not inherent and can therefore be
controlled by government.
If you believe as our Founders did,
that man was endowed by his
Creator with certain unalienable
rights, then those rights cannot be
infringed upon or abrogated by
man, court, or government at any
level. Our Founders, many being
lawyers themselves, chose their
words with extreme care throughthe
Declaration
and
out
Constitution, and the word they
chose in this case was ‘unalienable’
“… men are endowed with certain
unalienable rights and among
these are Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Happiness.”
Now that we have this sorted
out, is the right to keep and bear
arms one of those unalienable
rights to which our Founders
referred?
Even if you say the concept of
unalienable rights cannot apply to
guns because they are inanimate
objects that were not around when
the Creator brought mankind on
the scene, you have to admit that
the right of life does apply. Every
animal, including man, is endowed
with an instinct for self-preservation; i.e., life. All creatures have a
wide variety of self-defense mechanisms they use to preserve that
life. Some use teeth and claws,
some use sharp quills, venom,
horns, and hooves, and some of the
higher species actually use tools.
The great apes, for example, use
clubs and rocks. Man being the
highest species on the chain of life
has created some very sophisticated tools. The gun is just such a
tool—a self-defense mechanism
used to exercise his unalienable
right of self-preservation.
Given our logic thus far, I submit that while the gun alone, as an
inanimate object, cannot be an
unalienable right, to deny man the
mechanism or tool he uses to exercise his unalienable right of selfpreservation; i.e., life, is to seriously infringe upon that right.
Without the mechanism or tool, his
ability to defend himself is practically nullified. Take away an animal’s teeth, claws, quills, venom,
horns or hooves, and what you’ve
done to their God-given right of
self-preservation is to abrogate the
Creator’s intent. Take away the
great apes access to rocks and
clubs, and you’ve again annulled
the Creator’s plan for that animal.
Take away man’s access to arms,
and you’ve infringed upon his
endowed unalienable right to preserve his life.
As an aside, I view most gun
restrictions as “sham regulations,”
as they’re known in legal circles.
That is, dishonest government
actions that deceitfully claim to be
doing one thing, in this case “promoting public safety,” but in reality have the actual objective of
thwarting constitutional rights;
i.e., the right to preserve and
defend life.
Had the Founders used the
term “Inalienable rights” in place
of “Unalienable rights” the argument could be made that your
right to keep and bear arms can
legally be transferred from the
individual to the state through a
government established process of
consent. But, that is clearly not
the word they chose and words
mean specific things … particularly in law.
“But we don’t want to take
away your guns, we just want
stricter controls to keep them out
of the wrong hands,” says the antigunners’ next argument. Okay,
since we’re dealing with precise
definitions here, let’s look at
another phrase specifically chosen
by the Founders. “… shall not be
infringed.”
According to the
Webster Dictionary:
SHALL: “Determination or
promise. Inevitability. Command.
A directive or requirement. To
have to. MUST.” NOT: “In no
way; to no degree.
Used to
express negation, denial, refusal,
or prohibition.” BE: “Make: cause
to become.”
INFRINGED: “To
encroach
upon
something.”
Another way, then, to state the
concept of the Second Amendment
would be: “The right of the people
to keep and bear arms must in no
way or to no degree become
encroached upon.”
In summary, what does all
this mean? In my view, it simply
means the Founder’s meant
exactly what they wrote and
wrote exactly what they meant.
Our right to keep and bear arms
is unalienable, not inalienable, as
it pertains to our endowed right
to the preservation of life. It,
therefore, cannot be infringed
upon by man, court, or government at any level. Just the view
from my saddle …
Contact Colonel Dan:
[email protected]
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50th Clean matCH
By Chuckaroo, SASS #13080
ASS and Cowboy Action
Shooting™ have a little
something for each of us. And, at
the monthly match level, we each
have different goals and expectations in mind for ourselves.
Some are going for the top
spot or a category win; others,
the top ten. Many want to do
better than they have in the
past. There are those that want
to beat their spouse, children, or
best friend. Some folks are
S
happy just to get on the first
page of the score sheets!
Then there is another group.
They are not concerned with
beating anyone. Their goal is to
shoot the match clean; that is,
with no misses, procedurals, or
safety’s. Many have tried and
many more have failed. Some
shooters go for years before that
first clean match. It seems like
there is always something that
goes wrong with our brain, a gun,
bad ammo, or that silly procedural that
kept us from shooting a clean match.
So, when that day finally comes,
you can hear the scorekeeper as they
record your score while yelling, “And A
Clean Match!” Everyone gives you a
round of applause as your whole posse
rejoices in your shooting skills. It is not
uncommon to have a handful of shooters clean a match. What is uncommon
is a competitor shooting their 50th
clean match.
Now, you might say that is no big
deal and may be not worthy of an article in The Cowboy Chronicle. I will now
clarify by adding that the shooter,
Shadow Carson, SASS #22660 only has
one arm! Shadow lost his right arm
above the elbow many years ago. He
shoots everything the same as we do,
using a side-by-side coach gun, a
Marlin lever action, and pair of sixshooters. And, he is amazing to watch.
His muzzle direction and shooting safe-
ty are remarkable and safe!
“I can’t shoot for speed, so I go for
clean matches,” he says. To the many of
us that know him, he is a fine example
of Spirit of the Game. Whether it’s running a posse, setting props and targets,
or working hard to help his posse, he
never shirks a task. It is always a
pleasure shooting with him and to have
him as a great friend.
As a surprise, and in anticipation of
his 50th clean match (shot on Saturday,
September 19, 2009), Hud McCoy,
SASS #56721, and his friends had a
wood plaque and a cart plate engraved
to honor the accomplishment. We carried them along with a camera to every
match in anticipation of him achieving
his goal.
On behalf of all of us not so clean
shooters, our congratulations to Shadow
Carson on his 50th clean match! I’ll
start on his plaque for his 100th Clean
Match … say, next summer …
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CowBoytalK i
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So, you want to talk “cowboy” …
well, here’s a crash course
to git you started!
OLD WEST SAYINGS
MEAN/ANGRY
He was mad enough to swallow a
horn-toad backwards.
He’s so mean he’d steal a fly from a
blind spider.
He was so mean, he’d fight a rattler
and give him the first bite.
He was mean enough to steal a coin
off a dead man’s eyes.
He made an ordinary fight look like
a prayer meetin’.
When I’m done with you, there won’t
be enough left of you to snore.
He was mean enough to eat off the
same plate with a snake.
He was so mad he could bite himself.
He was mean enough to hunt bears
with a hickory switch.
By Whooper Crane, SASS #52745
UGLY
He was uglier than a new-sheared
sheep.
He has teeth so crooked he could eat
corn on the cob through a picket
fence.
His face was puckered like wet
sheepskin before a hot fire.
Her face looks like a dime’s worth of
dog meat.
He was ugly as a burnt boot.
He was so ugly he had to sneak up
on a dipper to get a drink of water.
He looked like the hindquarters of
bad luck.
His lip hangs down like a blacksmith’s apron.
He looks so bad his ears flop
She’s so ugly, she’d make a freight
train take a dirt road!
He’s as ugly as homemade sin.
She’s so ugly she could bluff a buzzard off a meat wagon.
CRAZY
He was crazy enough to eat the devil
with horns on.
He’s kinda off his mental reservation.
His intelligence shore ain’t at this
camp.
He’s as crazy as popcorn on a hot
stove.
He is as crazy as a sheepherder.
Somebody stole his rudder.
He’s crazier than a run over coon.
STUPID
He’s studying to be a halfwit.
His brain cavity wouldn’t make a
drinkin’ cup for a canary.
He couldn’t teach a hen to cluck.
His knife’s so dull it wouldn’t cut hot
butter.
He don’t know dung from wild honey.
If all his brains were dynamite, there
wouldn’t be enough to blow his
nose.
He couldn’t cut a lame cow from a
shade tree.
He couldn’t track an elephant in
snow.
He was so dumb he couldn’t drive
nails in a snowbank.
He’s as dull as dishwater.
He don’t know any more about it
than a hog does a sidesaddle.
He is plumb weak North of his ears.
He can’t tell skunks from house cats.
He had a ten-dollar Stetson on a
five-cent head.
His family tree was a shrub.
He couldn’t track a bed-wagon
through a bog hole.
He didn’t have nuthin’ under his hat
but hair.
He couldn’t hit the ground with his
hat in three throws.
He was as shy of brains as a terrapin
is of feathers.
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SKINNY/FAT
He is so thin he could take a bath in a
shotgun barrel.
He was so fat, you’d have to throw a
diamond hitch to keep him in the
saddle.
If he closed one eye he’d look like a needle.
He is built like a snake on stilts.
HAPPY
He was grinnin like a weasel in a hen
house.
He’s as pleased as a pup with two tails.
He’s grinnin like a jackass eatin’ cactus
She was as chipper as a jaybird.
He was grinnin’ like a baked possum.
LAZY
He’s as slow as molasses in January.
p.o. Box 2332
Cody, Wy 82414
(307) 587-5090
He’s too lazy to yell “Sueee” in a pigpen.
He moves as slow as a crippled turtle.
He’s so lazy, molasses wouldn’t run
down his legs.
LIES/CROOKED
He’s so crooked, he could swallow nails
and spit out corkscrews.
He told lies so well a man would be a
fool not to believe them.
He’s as crooked as a dog’s hind legs.
He’s lyin’ like a rug.
VOICE/SINGING
His voice sounded like someone forgot
to grease the wagon.
His singin’ was enough to make a shewolf jealous.
He punished the air with his singing.
He had a voice like a burro with a bad
cold.
OTHER
He didn’t have manners enough to
carry guts to a bear.
He couldn’t hit a bull’s rump with a
handful of banjos.
He was as drunk as a fiddler’s clerk.
She’s as nervous as a long-tailed cat in
a room full of rocking chairs.
He’d been in the desert so long, he
knew all the lizards by their first
names.
He ain’t fit to shoot at when you want
to unload and clean yo’ gun.
His mustache smelled like a mildewed
saddle blanket after it had been rid
on a sore back hoss three hundred
miles in August.
He was grittin’ his teeth like he could
bite the sites off a six-gun.
It was so dry the bushes followed the
dogs around.
He’s as dead as a can of corned beef.
He’s as welcome as a rattlesnake at a
square dance.
This saloon’s so bad, a rattlesnake’d be
ashamed to meet his mother here.
He lasted as long as a pint of whiskey
in a five-handed poker game.
She’s as pretty as a speckled pup.
He is as poor as a church mouse.
He’s as rich as possum gravy.
He was as popular as a wet dog at a
parlor social.
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. tHe pen
KniFe ,
By Swift Montana Smith, SASS # 52720
Swift Montana Smith,
SASS #52720
inishing the conversation
with, “I’ll be right there,” the
middle-aged business man
folded his cell phone and gently
tucked it away back into the inner
pocket of his suit coat. He stood up,
adjusted his tie, walked over to the
coat rack, and taking down his custom made Cowboy hat, put it on his
head, then walking over to a mirror,
adjusted the hat so it looked and fit
perfectly. Opening the door to his
office, he walked out briskly and
while passing his secretary, he
informed her he would be gone for
the rest of the day. When he reached
his BMW, he opened the door and as
he entered the vehicle, he removed
his cherished hat, sitting it upside
down next to him on the passenger
seat so as not to damage the brim.
Sitting quietly in the car he reflected
on the phone conversion he had just
had with the Principal of his ten
year old son’s school, the newly
renamed Barrack Obama Elementary Learning Center.
“Jesus Chistmas,” he said out
loud to himself, “they don’t even call
them schools anymore … Learning
Center … ha, more like indoctrination center if you ask me!”
The message from the Principal
was they had his son sitting in a special room, waiting for his father to
pick him up as a small pen knife was
discovered on his person and the boy
was being suspended for three days
pending an inquiry and possible
ejection from the school itself. He
pushed the start button on the car
and engine roared to life.
As he entered the parking lot of
the school, he glanced at the shinny
new gold letters that had been
mounted over the previous name of
the building. A faint ghost of an
imagine remained underneath them
and could still be read as George
Washington Elementary School.
F
Shaking his head, he found a place to
park, took his hat from the passenger seat, preceded to the entrance of
the building where a button and
intercom system hung next to a glass
door on a brick wall with a security
camera mounted directly above it.
He pushed the buzzer.
A scratchy voice from the small
speaker asked, “Yes, who is it?”
“Arnold Hancock,” came the
reply to the question.
“Yes, Mr. Hancock, can I help
you?” the voice asked.
“I’m here to see the principal
about my son … William.”
“Please come in and report to the
office on your left.”
Arnold Hancock heard a soft
buzzing sound and pushed on the
door. It opened, and he entered turning to his left. He walked into the
office marked Head Administrator
and saw his son sitting off to his right
in a separate room with his hands
folded and his head down. He was
just about to go into the room to talk
to his boy when the Principal came
from her office and intercepted him.
She held out her hand, “Carol
Whimply,” she said, her face unemotional.
Arnold looked down at her hand.
He noticed a ring on her thumb and
thought about how uncomfortable it
must be to wear a ring on your
thumb. Not taking the invited handshake, he stood with his hands at his
side and said firmly, “What’s this all
about?”
The woman turned toward her
office door and motioned Arnold to
join her inside.
“Please Mr. Hancock, can we
talk?”
Arnold followed her into the
small office. The woman sat down
behind her desk and motioned Arnold
to sit in the small chair in front of the
desk. “I’ll stand.” He said.
“Suit yourself,” replied Ms.
Whimply smugly, “Your son was
found to have a knife on the Center’s
property.”
“Oh really?” Arnold thought
about the small penknife he had
given his son only a few days ago on
his birthday. It was the same
penknife his father had given him on
his tenth birthday, the same
penknife that had been handed
down from generation to generation
and was given always on a boy’s
tenth birthday.
Carol felt relieved believing that
Mr. Hancock was upset about the
affair and would understand not
only did the boy need to be severely
punished, but this weapon of pain
needed to be immediately destroyed.
“Yes … and you know we have a
strict no tolerance policy here, Mr.
Hancock. The boy needs to be reprimanded and the weapon needs to be
destroyed!”
Arnold remembered telling his
son the history of the knife and its
importance in the family. He had
told him to keep it in his pocket, not
to use it for anything but maybe
whittling a piece of wood, or cutting
a string or piece of fishing line. It
was meant for utility, not as a
weapon. He had also told him not to
take it to school, knowing well of the
current situation in the country, and
although as a boy, he had used the
knife to play mumbly peg with his
friends on the playground when he
was young, he had explicitly told his
son to leave it home when he left in
the morning to catch the bus.
“I suppose he was flashing it
around showing his friends,” Arnold
said, a bit disappointed his son didn’t listen to his advice.
“No, he wasn’t doing that,” Carol
Whimply said.
“Well, then, how did you know he
had it?” Arnold was puzzled.
December 2009
“One of his school mates saw it
when the boy took out his lunch
money. He must have reached into
his pocket to get the money and
when he did, he pulled the knife out
as well.”
“… and then he flashed it
around.” Arnold said trying to get to
the bottom of the situation.
“No,” the principal said firmly,
“then he put it back in his pocket.”
Arnold was confused, “So …
what’s the problem?”
“What’s the problem? The problem is your son brought a knife onto
the Center’s grounds, and you don’t
see a problem with that? I’d expect
as much from a man who wears a
Cowboy hat when there’s not a cow
in sight for a forty mile radius!”
Carol hated westerns and Cowboys.
She and her girlfriend thought the
whole thing was just a bunch of
macho crap that men liked.
Arnold Hancock could take a lot
before he got upset, but now, not only
was his son’s integrity at question,
but he was being insulted himself.
“Well, let me tell you something
missy, this Cowboy hat I wear stands
for something. No, I’ve never herded
cows nor do I want too. I work in an
office building just outside of Boston,
and you’re right, there’s not a cow in
sight, but this hat has become a symbol in this country, and I’m proud to
wear it, every day. Now, I’d like to
talk to my son.”
Arnold walked out of the door to
the office and entered the room his
son was sitting in. His son immediately jumped to his feet.
“I’m sorry Dad, I didn’t mean to
bring the knife to school. I forgot to
take it out of my pocket this morning, and I didn’t even realize I had it
with me until I reached into my
pocket for my lunch money. I know
what you told me, I’m sorry, I won’t
let it happen again.” The boy was
panic-stricken.
The man walked over to his son
and put his arm on the boy’s shoulder. “Don’t worry boy, it’s no big
deal,” Arnold reassured.
“Yeah, but they said they were
gonna kick me out of school,” a tear
came to the boy’s eye dripping down
the side of his face.
“Where’s the knife?” his father
asked as he held out his hand.
“The Principal has it.” The boy
said sniffling.
“Wait here,” Arnold said as he
turned leaving the room. He entered
the Principal’s office again where she
was still seated behind the desk.
“Where’s the knife?” he questioned, holding out his hand.
“Mr. Hancock,” Carol Whimply
said sternly, “We can do this the easy
way, or we can do this the hard way.
The easy way is, I take this knife …”
she continued holding up the small
pen knife, then dropping it into a
drawer and locking it. Putting the
key in front of her on the desk she
continued, “… I’ll destroy that horrid
weapon, and I’ll give your son three
days suspension to make an example
out of him as well as mandatory
detention with no playground time
for the rest of the term. The hard
way is … your son gets expelled from
the Center and possibly the whole
district, and I report you to Child
and Family Services and have you
arrested for giving your son a dangerous weapon to play with.”
At first, Arnold was taken aback,
but then he regained his composure,
thought about the crude hat remark
and began. “I’d hardly call a pen
knife with a three inch blade a
weapon. That knife has been handed
down in my family from generation
to generation and has been in my
family for well over two hundred
years. It was given to me by my
father and was given to him by his
father and so forth. That knife is
very important … maybe not to you,
but it is to me and my son, so I’ll take
it back, please.” He reached for the
keys to the locked drawer and as he
did, Carol Whimply grabbed them
first and dropped them down the
front of her shirt. As she did this, she
smiled as if being satisfied that she
had pulled a prank on someone and
was successful.
“It’s still a knife, and we still
have a zero tolerance policy and you
won’t be getting that ‘thing’ back,”
she said. “Now, what’s so important
about a pen knife that can easily be
replaced?”
“Well, as I said, that knife has
been in our family for generations,”
Arnold said calmly, “it was first used
by my great-great-great grandfather
to sharpen his goose quill to sign an
important document, so I’d like to
have it back.”
“Oh what’s the big deal, what
could be so important?”
Ms.
Whimply asked sharply.
Arnold straightened his back,
adjusted his Cowboy hat and looked
Carol Whimply square in the eyes.
“The document was called The
Declaration of Independence and my
great-great-great grandfather …
maybe you’ve heard of him, maybe
not … his name was John Hancock,
and he signed his name big and
beautiful on that document as a sign
of defiance over the tyranny he and
his friends were suffering from
knowing soon they would be fighting
and dieing to abolish the crazy laws
that were being set forth!” He
paused for a minute, his eyes never
leaving hers as he added, “Now, we
can do this the easy way, or we can do
this the hard way.”
Up until then, Carol Whimply
had not made the connection with
the name Hancock. She reached into
her blouse and found the key.
Unlocking the drawer, she retrieved
the penknife and handed it to Arnold
Hancock.
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“Thank you.” Mr. Hancock said
flatly, “Now, I’m going to get my boy,
and he’ll be here tomorrow … unfortunately, but he’ll be here none the
less, on time, for the start of a new
school day. I’ll talk to my son, and
you Ms. Whimply, will drop the
whole affair and treat my boy with
the respect he deserves … not
because he’s an ancestor of John
Hancock, but because he’s a decent
human being who made a mistake.
A small mistake as I’m sure you
have done, and will do, many more
times in your life.”
He tipped his hat, walked out of
the office and went into retrieve his
son. “Come on boy, let’s go!” His son
took his father’s hand as they
walked out the door.
“Am I in trouble Dad?” the boy
asked as they got into the car.
“No, son. Don’t worry about it, but
… check your pockets in the morning
before you leave the house. Okay?”
“Sure Dad!”
(S. M. Smith is a freelance writer and
frequent contributor to The Cowboy
Chronicle. He can be found at his web
site smontanasmith.com)
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December 2009
Part iii
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tHe adventure
oF tHe
HonoraBle
sHootist
“Just then a visibly distraught young man
and a police officer burst into the room.”
By Tennessee Jack Sledger, SASS #65872
Synopsis: Tennessee Jack Sledger
has met with P. Roland Esq., an enigmatic lawyer, who has explained that
Kathleen Morningstar is in danger of
being harmed in a Chinese Tong war
with San Francisco reformers.
an Francisco attorney, and former gunfighter, P. Roland, foresaw an inter-racial war brewing between the Chinese Tong gangs
and White reformers. He was determined to do everything in his power
to prevent that from happening. He
went to the various missionary and
temperance leagues with a plea to
subdue their ardor in the interest of
avoiding bloodshed. He argued for
allowing just law to take its course
and won a grudging agreement from
all but a few firebrands—and of
course, Fang Wo Chin.
Among the firebrands were two
totally cause committed spinster
ladies from Nob Hill. They were
beautiful well-to-do heiresses of separate fortunes, one from logging, the
other from gold. They lived together
in a sumptuous mansion, and it was
said, in politely discrete Victorian
whispers, they were “the Strange
Sisters.” Kathleen Morningstar had
become very friendly with these
ladies, and to Roland’s great annoyance, was another of the firebrands.
Kathleen had too much confidence in herself. She seemed to
believe she was indestructible.
Roland knew that any tong hatchet
man could and would kill her in an
instant, but could not convince her
that by raiding the gang’s establish-
S
ments she was putting herself in
mortal danger. Kathleen just promised to carry her Schofields to
defend herself if the need arose.
It was at this point Roland
wrote to Tennessee Jack Sledger.
Kathleen had often spoken about
Jack. She told how he had saved her
from the horrors of Wichita and
from assassination in New York.
She talked about their great adventures on the plains in a futile search
for suspected double agents in the
Custer affair and the truth about
her own parents. She even told
Roland about Sledger’s marriage
proposals. She had wanted to accept
him very much, but knew because of
each other’s personal nature, such a
union would be doomed to failure.
Still, she confessed, she loved Jack
with all her heart. Roland thought
Jack might be able to dissuade
Kathleen from her hot-headed fervor against the slavers in the interest of a more reasonable approach.
But, there had not been time for
a reasonable approach. The two
spinsters from Nob Hill and
Kathleen led a raid by unhappy
police officers and zealous activists
against one of the major Chinatown
bagnios, one under the protection of
Sum Yop, just as a sale of new slave
girls was being conducted. The
innocents were rescued, including a
beautiful Cambodian Khmer dancer.
This girl was a prize of incalculable
value to the slavers. She and the
others were whisked away to a
Christian Salvation mission.
Roland was very emphatic.
“Those fools are calling Fang Wo
Chin’s hand! Against all reason,
they’re forcing his play.”
Just then a visibly distraught
young man and a police officer burst
into the room despite the houseboy’s
vehement protests. Roland sprang
to his feet, but instantly recognized
the intruders.
“Calm yourselves, Mr. Statler,
Lieutenant Schnabel,” Roland said,
placating the houseboy and sending
him on his way.
“This is Mr. Statler and Lt.
Schnabel, two of my most able officers. Gentlemen, may I present Mr.
Tennessee Jack Sledger, a close
friend of … Why man, what is
wrong with you?”
Statler was deathly pale and
seemed in eminent danger of fainting. Roland went to a table that
held a carafe of brandy, poured a
glass and handed it to Statler.
“Here. Steady yourself, then tell
me what the difficulty is.”
The police lieutenant indicated
he did not want a drink. After taking a stiff shot and shaking his
head, Mr. Statler explained. The latest activist raid had forced Fang Wo
Chin to take action of his own for
the survival of Sum Yop. He had
done so last night.
The spinsters’ mansion was
burned to the ground. Their servants were all murdered, and the
gold heiress was found strung up to
the large wrought iron front gate,
dead, and brutalized beyond
description. The Christian Salvation Mission was also attacked by
the boo how doy of Sum Yop and the
Khmer dancer retaken.
The logging heiress was not at
home during that terrible calamity.
Early that very morning, filled with
indignant outrage, she led another
raid on the same bordello accompanied by Kathleen Morningstar, a
squad of cops, and a posse of
reformers. They ran into a slaughter. Not one of the raiders survived
the ambush Fang Wo Chin had set
for them.
Tennessee Jack and Roland
rushed from the hotel, took the cab
that was waiting outside for Mr.
Statler and the police officer, and
the four men dashed down to the
infamous San Francisco dock area,
where the tragedy had occurred.
What they found there differed only
by degree from that Sledger had
seen in the greasy grass near the
banks of the Little Big Horn.
Grimly, Roland put Jack’s thoughts
into words.
“I’m told you were one of the
first on the scene of the Custer debacle.”
“Ye-ah, lottsa dead folks.
Dangit! Why cain’t folks keep their
heads? This warn’t necessary. She
deserved better.”
Kathleen lay with the other
dead, an expression of horrified surprise frozen on her face. She had
been run through by a sword that
pinned a message to her. It was a
December 2009
business card that read P. Roland,
Esquire, Attorney at Law, Fang Wo
Chin’s warning to Roland who was
the real threat to his power. The
dead reform raiders had been a mere
nuisance easily eliminated.
Tennessee Jack grumbled under
his breath.
“Now Ah gotta study on countin’
coup on them Ce-lestial buggers.”
Roland replied solemnly.
“It will have to be done in such a
manner as to put an end to all of
this.”
“Lookee here, Mr. Roland,
Esquire, Ah’m gonna count coup on
thet son-of-a- seacook, my way, for
her! She shoulda been my woman,
an’ if Ah wuz a better man, mebe she
woulda been, ‘steada comin’ t’this
here. Mebe what Ah’m fixin’ t’do
ain’t right t’all a’you civilized folks,
but that’s what Ah’m gonna do, anyhow, jus’ so’s Ah kin sleep at night.”
Roland smiled humorlessly.
“I quite understand, Mr. Sledger.
Until recently, I made a very comfortable livelihood by selling my
skill and expertise with a gun.”
He went on to say that the old
times were becoming a thing of the
past. The time of the honorable mercenary was drawing to a close as
society became more organized.
Very soon it would be unnecessary
and inadvisable for individuals and
groups to make and enforce their
own laws, which was the service
Roland had provided, under another
identity.
“The pen and spoken word are
and should be mightier than the
gun, and I intend to contribute to
that end.”
“You were a Shootist, a pistoleer?
“Within very strictly defined
limits, yes, I was.”
“You goin’ after this, this-?”
“Not if you claim the quest, er,
mission. I do believe yours to be the
stronger claim. I would like to suggest some tactics.”
Roland suggested they responded to the Sum Yop outrage in the
oriental manner. Tennessee Jack
agreed to follow Roland’s advice.
Chinese calligraphers crafted vermillion colored notices that
appeared on public bulletin boards
throughout Chinatown. They challenged Fang Wo Chin to face
Tennessee Jack Sledger in mortal
combat at the Sacramento villa.
The notices said Sledger would
come alone and since Fang Wo Chin
was a man of honor, he, too, would
be alone in the fight, unaccompanied by his boy how doy or highbinder assassins. Roland did not
doubt for a moment Fang would be
surrounded by his private army, so
he made preparations for one man
to face many.
To be continued …
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December 2009
sideKiCKs & Heavies
Honoring the Saddle Buddies and the Bad Guys who
helped make Saturday Matinees so Goldurned FUN!
Whooper Crane,
SASS #52745
Mug shot by Deadeye Al
s we’ve seen with some of our
previous Sidekicks & Heavies
guys, sometimes it takes a real
cowboy to effectively play a reel cowboy.
That’s definitely the route our old
pal Ben Johnson took in becoming
one of our most-recognized cowboy
Sidekicks in dozens of western flicks
and TV shows … for over 50 years.
It seems Director Howard
Hughes was looking to buy some
horseflesh for his upcoming potboiler The Outlaw in 1940. He
picked out a couple dozen from the
Oklahoma ranch of Ben’s dad, Ben
Sr., and asked that they be delivered to his filming location in
northern Arizona.
Guess who got tapped to deliver the nags? Young Ben, of course.
As he was often quoted in later
years, “I got to Hollywood in a carload of horses.”
Now, Ben had earned his spurs
long ago as a working ranch cowboy
and rodeo competitor. He was a
highly-rated bronco buster and
roper. In fact, even later, after a
A
dozen years of movie work, Ben was
still good enough to earn the 1953
PRCA’s Team Roping Championship.
During the early 1940’s, Ben
kept busy wrangling horses and
doing stunt-double work on many
of the oaters that were cranked out
at the time.
Ben’s prowess as a top horse
handler caught the eye of Director
John Ford, who hired him as Henry
Fonda’s stunt-double in the classic
western Fort Apache with John
Wayne, Ward Bond, and a host of
other “John Ford Players.” This
flick was the first of Ford’s “Cavalry
Trilogy,” which included She Wore A
Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande, in
which Ben also sidekicked.
In 1948, Ben played one of the
posse members who chased The
Duke, Pedro Armendariz, and young
Harry Carey, Jr. across the desert in
Ford’s highly-praised 3 Godfathers. It
was during the filming of this fine
flick that Ben and Dobe became close
friends. They appeared in several
more oaters for Ford and others in the
years ahead, including Yellow Ribbon
in 1949 and Rio Grande in 1950.
(Who’ll ever forget these two raisedon-ranches upstarts showing up Sgt.
Maj. Quincannon in Rio Grande when
they jumped on two horses each and
flew around the parade grounds
“Roman Style,” standing tall on the
saddles? What a great scene!)
In 1950, the boys also made
Wagon Master, which showcased
these two talented guys in the
Ben Johnson
actual starring roles of Travis and
Sandy. By the way, one of their
supporting actors was a young guy
named James Arness.
(Where
have we heard that name before?).
Ben became one of Hollywood’s
favorite western actors … sometimes in starring roles, but most
often as a Sidekick to the biggies.
He was also tapped to play
cowboys in a host of episodes of TV
westerns, including Laramie, Have
Gun, Will Travel, Gunsmoke, and
The Virginian.
He paled with Brando making
One-Eyed Jacks and with Heston
in Major Dundee. And … as Tector
Gorch (one of the infamous Gorch
brothers), Ben made the scene
with Pike, Dutch, Lyle, and the
rest of The Wild Bunch in 1969.
His brightest moment came at
the Academy Awards ceremony in
1972 when he won the Oscar for
Best Sidekick (Best Actor in a
Supporting Role) for his portrayal
of Sam The Lion in The Last
Picture Show (which was adapted
from a non-cowboy novel by none
other than Larry McMurtry of
Lonesome Dove fame).
Ben loved working with our
own personal favorite movie hero,
John Wayne. During the ‘70’s, he
again sidekicked The Duke in The
Undefeated, Chisum, and the
Train Robbers. He often said he
could make a good living just
working with The Duke. They both
aged on the big screen before our
eyes … but their aging seemed to
spotlight their talents even better
than in their youth.
Ben went on to appear with
other favorite cowboy stars, like
Tom Selleck in Louis L’Amour’s
The Sacketts and The Shadow
Riders (in which Ben played the
notorious Black Jack Traven), and
with Steve McQueen in The
Getaway and Junior Bonner.
During the ‘80’s and ‘90’s, Ben
semi-retired from Hollywood, preferring to operate his horse-breeding ranch near Sylmar, CA. (By
semi-retirement, we’re still talkin’
‘bout making one or two picture
shows a year!)
Ben rode over the horizon in
1996 at age 77 in Mesa, AZ, where
he was visiting his mom. He’s
buried next to his dear wife, Carol,
in Pawhuska, OK. I’m sure he’d
appreciate a visit if you’re in the
neighborhood.
To recognize his achievements,
there’s a big star with his name on it
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ben
was inducted into the Western
Performers Hall of Fame at the
National Cowboy & Western Heritage
Museum in Oklahoma City. With his
cowboy/rodeo background, Ben was
the real thing in a reel world!
Next month we’ll look at one of
Hollywood’s better-known Heavies
(and one of The Duke’s betterknown drinking buddies) who
saved a fair damsel from a big,
hairy ape! See you then.
Sources: Wikipedia.org; imdb.com;
allmovie.com; jwayne.net
Photos: Whooper Crane by
Deadeye Al;
Ben Johnson by DD Western World
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December 2009
tHe BuCKHorn
exCHange
By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator#4375
“It found its way home (the bullet)
and the miscreant was quickly
and handily dispatched
to greener pastures.”
enver, CO – The first thing
that hits you is the sound of
laughter. When close to 200
people sit down to enjoy a tantalizing dinner over cocktails there’s
bound to be noise, but in this case,
it’s happy noise. The entrance to the
restaurant is narrow, and probably
caused John Wayne to walk in sideways, but that little hindrance soon
gives way to upstairs and downstairs
dinning rooms and a few rooms
upstairs and off to the sides that give
the impression of a bordello. My wife
apparently had a similar impression
and gave me a look that said; “I know
what you are thinking.”
About that time the maitre d’
signals us to follow him, and he
steers us through the throng of people to our very small table surrounded by folks that are already two
sheets to the wind, but happier than
pigs in mud. We claim our table and
the Waiter is upon us like a flash.
He says something to us, but we
can’t hear him over the laughter. I
give him the “can’t hear” signal and
he lip synchs, “what can I get you to
drink?” “Something,” says I “that
will quickly get us to the same state
of mind as these people surrounding
us,” and off he goes to fashion up two
very dry gin martini’s-—the show is
about to begin.
This World Famous Steakhouse
opened its Denver doors in 1893, and
is now in its second century of operation. The Buckhorn Exchange,
which has liquor license Number
One in the State of Colorado, was
started by Henry H. “Shorty Scout”
Zietz, a frontier scout that rode with
Buffalo Bill. During his scouting
days with the famous frontiersman,
he met that great Indian Leader,
Chief Sitting Bull, who dubbed him
“Shorty Scout” due to his diminutive
stature. He lived with this handle
D
Several Hunting Trophies adorn the walls and rooms
of the Buckhorn Exchange, but don’t confuse this with
San Antonio’s Buckhorn.
until his death in July 1949, the last
of Cody’s famous scout band.
President Theodore Roosevelt
ate here and then went hunting with
old “Shorty Scout.” Sitting Bull’s
nephew and a band of thirty Sioux
and Blackfeet Indians came by one
day and ceremoniously turned over
to “Shorty” the military saber taken
from the vanquished General George
Custer at the Battle of the Little Big
Horn. The sword remains in the possession of the Zietz family. Can you
even begin to imagine the auction
value this saber would bring? It’s a
retirement plan in hand for sure!
On December 8, 1900, a masked
marauder burst into the restaurant
waving a long horse pistol and
demanding money and valuables
from the Buckhorn safe and from
the saloon’s patrons. Collecting his
booty, the desperate man was heading out the door when one of the
barmaids screamed hysterically
whereupon the cowardly gunman
struck her a severe blow to the head
causing quite a blood flow.
Knocking her down, the culprit lit
out the door, jumped on his horse
and headed north down Osage
Street. This is where the evil
marauder made his big mistake.
One of those present grabbed a
rifle and burst out the door in pursuit of the renegade who by now
had ridden halfway down the street.
The rifle was carefully raised and a
single shot fired. It found its way
home, and the miscreant was quickly and handily dispatched to greener pastures. The final result of this
dastardly incident has been to
spread “Shorty Scout” Zietz’s reputation among the denizens of the
local underworld as a man not to be
tangled with.
It was time to order our meal.
We polished off our second martini
and now could join right in on the
neighboring jokes and laughter.
When we told folks we were from
Oregon, the laughter increased and
everyone had to mouth-out Orygun
and made sure they mispronounced
it. We laughed at that too.
Friendly service and happy
customers makes the
Buckhorn Exchange
a great place to unwind.
Hors d’oeuvre are listed on the
menu as Great Beginnings and the
first item listed is Rattlesnake, or
Serpent A Sonnettes for the French
guests. We skipped over that and
settled for fried Alligator Tail. The
main course, called Supper, featured Elk, Colorado Lamb, Cornish
Game Hen, Quail, and your regular
listing of fish entrees. Steak was
offered on the menu by the pound,
and three pounds for four guests
was listed at $134. We settled for
and split a full rack of barbecued
Baby Back Pork Ribs, a choice we
are still complimenting each other
on making. When finished, we left
the restaurant with half of the rack
in a box, and that served as dinner
the next evening.
Prices are over looked at the
Buckhorn. Any concern for price is
more than over-shadowed by the
ambiance offered at no charge. You
get what you pay for, and the
Buckhorn is a sterling example of
that statement. For dessert, we split
December 2009
a double chocolate Rocky Road
Brownie, and then decided it was
time to roll-out-of-there while we
could still negotiate the same door
that gave John Wayne fits.
The Buckhorn Exchange is one of
two famous restaurants with the
name Buckhorn. Although similarly
named, they are not related. They
are world famous and heavily frequented
by
Cowboy/Cowgirl
Shooters. I don’t think I have ever
talked to a SASS member who hasn’t
been to one or the other of these
famous restaurants.
The other
Buckhorn, located in San Antonio,
Texas features all the stuffed animals and hunting trophies. Like the
one in Denver, the San Antonio
restaurant is also noted for its quality of food. We were fortunate during
this last road trip to be able to visit
both within one week. This, of
course, accounts for the five pounds
gained in transit (more on the San
Antonio Buckhorn later).
Visiting and dinning at the
Denver Buckhorn Exchange is a
must for any western history buff. It
reeks with history and the western
décor and ambiance makes one feel
they are in the same saloon with
William F. Cody, President Roosevelt,
Shorty Scout, and Chief Sitting Bull.
Dress casual, bring a huge appetite
and camera, and join in the fun.
You’re a Daisy if Ya do!
Next issue, The Other
Buckhorn.
Footnotes:
Ed., Sitting Bull’s Nephew Gives
Indian War Trophy To Last of
Cody’s Scouts, The Osage Gazette,
Vol. D56, No. 11/08, pg. 4.
Ibid. Pg. 1.
Photos courtesy of the Buckhorn
Exchange.
VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT
WWW.SASSNET.COM
~ DONNA ~
(714) 269-9899
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tHe otHer Bullet:
Re-enactors Review
By M. Lou Findley, Life #25192
From an interview with Joe Miller
AKA “Sixgun” of Lawbreakers and
Peacemakers, Inc.
he
name,
Fort
Smith,
Arkansas, conjures up the
comeback of “where the west
begins.” Nestled in the Arkansas
River Valley, between the Ozark and
Ouachita Mountains, Fort Smith
rests gently on the banks of the
Arkansas River. It is a unique combination of the history of the “Old
West” with the gentle charm of the
antebellum “Old South.”
This is where the legend of
Judge Isaac Parker, the famous
hangin’ judge and the relentless pursuit of evil doers by the brave men of
T
the U.S. Marshal service, was played
out. For twenty-one years, Judge
Isaac Parker held the bench of the
U.S. Court for the Western District of
Arkansas, located in this border
town of Fort Smith. His tenure was
unique in the history of the federal
judiciary in that Hanging Judge
Parker heard thousands of criminal
complaints involving disputes and
violence between Indians and nonIndians. Over his fourteen years on
the bench, he sentenced 160 people
to death earning him the distinction
of the Ft. Smith Hanging Judge.
Fort Smith has even been selected as the future site of the United
States Marshal Service (USMS)
National Museum. After three years
of promoting Fort Smith as the
“home for the US Marshal Museum,”
the city received the news from
Marshals Service Director John
Clark that Fort Smith had been
selected this year.
Bad men and women, land speculators, murderers, and thieves all
hid out in this once Indian Territory,
a huge expanse of land, and it was
the job of Judge Parker and his
deputies to clean it up. The legendary “Trail of Tears” cuts a path
through this area that marks the
expulsion of Native Americans from
their homelands to government
reservations.
This is the perfect location for a
very active re-enactment group. The
Lawbreakers and Peacemakers,
formed in November 2000, have a
mission to have fun while representing the actual history of the Fort
Smith region. With all the history in
the area, they are pretty accurate in
their historical re-enactments and
often use court documents to develop
written skits. The funny stuff is
mostly a day in the life of the 1800’s.
The Lawbreakers and Peacemakers
are a charitable organization, and all
money collected over costs is donated
to individuals in need or children’s
charities. For dues of $10 a year, 35
members regularly participate in reenactment performances for all types
of events. These include street festi(Continued on next page)
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vals, bank robberies, train robberies,
conventions, parades, shotgun weddings, funerals, fairs, plays, rodeos,
and concerts. Gun safety is promoted
before each skit and gun safety classes provided for schools. They recently completed a class for teachers at a
regional teachers conference. In
skits, factory made ammunition from
the Swanson Company or Perfect
Shot is consistently used.
The group, made up of members
from ages 4 to 89, holds an event
almost every weekend within an 80mile radius of Fort Smith, except for
the month of July. The schedule is
pretty demanding, so it is difficult to
participate in local SASS shoots and
be involved in all their activities.
Their most prestigious re-enactment
performance each year is The
Governors Conference on Tourism.
Sixgun stated the hottest show, and
he means temperature-wise, was the
3rd Sunday in July, 2008, when it
was 106 degrees and 75% humidity,
and the show, from setting up the
town to tearing it down, was 12
hours long. That takes loyalty to the
group and their mission!
“So, Sixgun, what are some highlights of the skits you like?” “Well,
the one we call the “Hat Trick” where
a drunk shoots the feathers out of a
lady’s hat is darn funny. “Mail Order
Bride” is another where the town
buffoon orders a bride by mail.
When she arrives, she is disgusted to
learn he has no money. The buffoon
shoots the town agitator, who has a
reward on his head, and then the
buffoon has the reward money and a
loyal bride. I do remember the time
we did a train robbery and an elderly lady thought it was for real so she
took off her jewelry and hid it in her
mouth. That was just too funny. Boy,
was she relieved to find out we were
not for real!”
For more information on
Lawbreakers and Peacemakers contact “Sixgun” at their web site:
www.Lawbreakersandpeacemakersinc.com
If you are involved in an Old
West re-enactment group and
would like to share information
with SASS members, please contact
M. Lou Findley through:
<http://mloufindley.com>.
~ DONNA ~
(714) 269-9899
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December 2009
Hang on to your Boot money
or
iF it seems too good to Be
true
By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907
TG Sucker Creek, Michigan
Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907
Territorial Governor,
Sucker Creek Michigan
received an E-mail a while
ago from a sad cowboy
lamenting losing his boot
money. Seems he spent several
hours’ wages on two sets of genuine “John Wayne Fingered Grips”
he found advertised in a magazine.
I
When the glittering new grips
came in the mail, he promptly
installed them on his matched set
of pistols and sat in the glow of his
shiny new back strap wraps until
the next shoot. After several impatient days of anticipation, the time
finally came for him to proudly
show off his new acquisition to his
pards at the monthly match.
But, wouldn’t ya know it, the
first cowboy he showed off the
grips to said, “You might want to
check, but I think they are not
SASS legal.” Sure enough, when
he checked with SASS Head quarters, they informed him that
they are considered target grips.
It says in Proverbs 23:12, “Apply
your heart to instruction and your
ears to words of knowledge.” The
best way I know of to keep from
squandering your hard-earned
money on illegal SASS items is to
gain knowledge of the rules by
reading the SASS Handbook, RO-I
and RO-II materials, or by asking
someone with words of knowledge.
If ‘fen this article can keep Ten
and/or Eight cowboys from losing
their boot money, it will have been
time well-spent sitting in the ole
writer’s saddle. Hope this article
encourages ya all ta apply your
heart and mind to SASS instruction, or at least ask a few questions
to the right cowboys before opening
up your money bag.
Hope ta see ya on the trail
[email protected]
www.suckercreek.org
adVErtiSiNG
iNforMatioN
aSK for
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December 2009
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December 2009
disassemBling a pistol Cylinder on tHe CloCK
OR
Testing Loads, Earplugs,
and the Trajectory of Metal
By Long Jim Hancock, SASS Regulator #47369
Photos by author and Latigo Slim, SASS #23783
lazing away on stage four, my catlike reflexes the envy of all, squinty-eyed and nerveless, every move
flawless, a study in … KA-BOOM!
Looking down at the .45 ASM Hartford
in my hand, I realized I had never seen
B
the inside of a pistol cylinder before.
Three chambers of one, in fact. Well,
from THAT angle, anyway …
My first thought was, crap, I’ve
blown up my pistol. My second was
that I was the center of the posse’s
attention, and NOT in a good way.
Then, I grounded the mangled corpse,
and actually said to the T.O., “Do you
want me to finish up the shotgun
string?” “NO”, he said, all ‘WIDEY
EYED,’ “I think that’s good enough.”
“Are you OKAY though?” A quick
examination revealed I had retained
all ten digits, skin, hair, teeth, and
MOST of my dignity. So, luckily, had
everyone else in the posse, which I
noticed was giving me a WIDE berth.
I gathered up my long guns, and
made my sullen way past the throng
of ATTENTIVE, slack- jawed shooters to the unloading table. Sobbing
… (okay, too much literary license)
… Unhappily, I unloaded the rest of
my guns, and, seeing that a curious
crowd had gathered, along with a
photographer, I had to pull the cylinder and extract the single un- fired
round, and pose for documentary
pictures. None of the top strap, or
cylinder debris were ever found,
though I half-expected a goose, or
single-engine plane to hit the
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ground near us. In looking back
through the previous loading session, I remembered stopping the
Dillon, and readjusting one of its
stages, and then placing the rounds
back in queue where I thought they
should go, and resumed loading.
Apparently a 160-grain bullet had
stuck up in the seating die, and I had
loaded a second one into the case.
This is referred to by those familiar with explosives as: “Making a
bomb.” My loading was 3.2 grains of
Clays, so a double-load would have
been at the top-end 6.4 of the
Hodgdon loading data sheet. I never
found any loose powder in the loaded
round bin, nor any squibs in the
OTHER 300 rounds I PULLED when
I got home. I do remember after the
loading session finding I was one
round short of a box of a hundred
rounds. While unloading the rounds,
I managed to shatter the plastic collet on the RCBS bullet puller into
fragments that struck me in the side
of the head—evidently in cahoots
with the Dillon to exact some measure of revenge for the departed pistol.
Be careful dear readers, in your
reloading. Keep your bullet-seating die clean, lest you suffer loss
and possible harm by duplicating
what happened to me.
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a reversal oF Fortunes
Reversing the Triggers on a Stoeger S&S
Part ii .
By Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS Life #32933
Larsen E. Pettifogger,
SASS Life #32933
ast month we disassembled
our Stoeger and did a little
fine-tuning. Now we can finish
the job by reversing the triggers and
reassembling the gun. Photo 32
L
shows the two unmodified factory
triggers. The upper one is normally
installed in the right hand slot in the
bottom of the receiver and normally
fires the right hand barrel. The bottom trigger fits in the left hand slot
and fires the left barrel. As noted in
Part I, this arrangement requires
the right-handed shooter to move
his/her trigger finger rearward and
inward to fire the second barrel.
(You lefties are already set up properly and don’t need to worry about
this mod.) Reversing the triggers
will allow the shooter to move
his/her trigger finger straight back
to fire the second shot. Start by
inserting the old “left” trigger (the
bottom trigger in Photo 32) into the
right hand trigger slot. Photo 33.
Remember, we are now looking at
the bottom of the receiver so the
“right” hand slot when the gun is
upright is now on the left side as we
are looking at it. We are going to be
removing and inserting both triggers
several times. Rather than try to
hammer the short trigger pin repeatedly in and out, use a drill bit (or
nail, etc.) as a temporary pin.
Photo 34. A 5/64" bit or thereabouts
should do the job. You don’t want to
hammer the bit in; you want one
that will slide in and out easily to
facilitate fitting the triggers. If the
bit’s a little loose in the hole, it won’t
matter for our purposes.
Move the trigger up and down to
make sure it is not dragging in its
new slot. Photo 35. If it is, polish
the triggers so they will move and
trip the sears without rubbing on
each other. Photo 37 shows the for-
ward trigger sitting on top of the
rear trigger. Take a scribe and make
a mark where the rear end of the
front trigger overlaps the rear trigger. Photo 38. Take a Dremel or die
the interior of the slot and/or the
sides of the trigger. Now set the forward trigger in the other slot. (Make
sure it is also not dragging.) Notice
how it interferes with the rear trigger. Photo 36. We have to adjust
grinder with a sanding drum and
grind the lip on the side of the rear
trigger level with the flat part of the
trigger. Grind rearwards down the
side of the trigger until you are a little beyond the mark you scribed on
the rear trigger. Photo 39 shows the
ground rear trigger sitting in its slot.
Next, take a look at the forward trig-
ger. It has a shelf running along the
top of the finger portion of the trigger
where it transitions to the flat that
fits into the slot in the receiver.
Photo 40. We are going to make that
transition a smooth curve.
Set the front trigger into its slot
on top of the modified rear trigger;
notice how that square edged shelf is
interfering with the rear trigger.
Photo 41. Take your Dremel or die
grinder and with a stone or small
sanding drum make that shelf a
smooth transition from the upper flat
part of the trigger to the lower (finger) part of the trigger. Photo 42.
Try not to remove material, or
remove as little material as possible,
from the upper flat part of the trigger. You want a smooth transition,
but you don’t want to thin that upper
plate. Put the triggers in the gun
(making sure they are in the proper
slots) and adjust until they clear each
other. Photo 43. Photo 44 shows
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Hook the spring over its retainer on
the end of the sear to keep the spring
from flopping around loose. Push the
sear pin a little further into the
spring channel and install the left
hand sear spring and push in the pin
so it just starts into the left hand
sear channel wall. Photo 46. Install
the left hand sear and fully seat the
sear pin. Lift the sear spring and
hook it over the retainer on the end
of the left sear. Photo 47. The trig-
the modified rough ground trigger.
Notice that there is a line of
untouched material between the finger part of the trigger and the flat
part of the trigger. As previously
noted, you want a smooth transition,
but you don’t want to remove excess
material from the flat part of the
trigger. With a round stone you
won’t be able to completely remove
that little line without dishing the
upper flat part of the trigger. As long
as the two triggers clear each other,
don’t worry about that line. Once
done, polish where you have ground
the triggers to get nice smooth surfaces. (They don’t have to be mirror
bright. You just want to remove all
the rough edges.) Now it’s time to
reassemble our Stoeger.
Start by installing the right
hand sear. Put the sear pin in from
the right side of the receiver enough
so it won’t fall out, but not enough so
that it sticks into the right hand sear
channel. Insert the right hand sear
and then push the pin through the
sear and about 1/3 of the way
through the center channel. This is
where the sear springs go. Next put
on the right sear spring. Photo 45.
gers can be put in first, followed by
the sears and springs. However, if
the spring’s slip off the sear retainers
and drop between the triggers they
can be difficult to get back out from
between the triggers; I’m suggesting
this procedure in hopes it will make
things a little easier. Next, install
the modified triggers in their new
locations and use the drill bit to line
everything up. Photo 48. Once
lined up, tap the trigger pin in from
and spring, Photo 31, reinstall the
locking block from the right side of
the gun, Photo 30, and slide it all the
way forward. Put the lever/locking
block spring on the guide and use a
needle nose pliers to shove it back
into its hanger and inward until it
engages the small hole in the back of
the locking block. Photo 28. Next,
cock the hammers. You can’t put the
forearm on if the hammers aren’t
cocked. To cock the hammers put the
cocking levers on a hard surface and
push the receiver downward. Photo
50. Reinstall the trigger guard.
With the pinned style trigger guard
simply put the trigger guard into its
holes in the receiver and reinstall
the pins in their proper locations as
shown in Photo 14. (Long pin in
front, short pin in the rear.) For
those guns with the screw-on style
trigger guard start the forward trigger guard screw and turn it in until
it contacts the trigger guard. Photo
51. Then put your thumb on the
screw, press down, and use the trigger guard to tighten the screw.
Photo 52. If that doesn’t work, use
an angle screwdriver like that shown
in Photo 20 to tighten the screw.
Install the rear trigger guard screw
and then check for clearance on the
and close the action and trip the
hammers a few times to make sure
everything is working correctly.
Your forward trigger will now
fire the left barrel and the rear trigger will fire the right barrel. No big
deal unless you happen to load one
round for some reason and forget
which trigger fires which barrel!
But, the big difference is now you
merely have to fire the first barrel
and let your finger move straight
back to fire the second barrel. You’ll
be quicker than greased lightning!!!
At least that’s what I hear tell.
GIVE TO THE
SASS SCHOLARSHIP
FOUNDATION
the right hand side. Photo 49 shows
the installed triggers with the forward trigger now mounted on the left
side and the rear trigger on the right
side. In Photo 49 you can also see the
smooth radius and transition on the
side of the front trigger below where
the old straight shelf shown in Photo
40 used to be.
If you removed the locking bar
rear trigger. Photo 53. If the rear
trigger is touching, you can give the
front of the sheet metal trigger
guard a little tap with a plastic hammer. Photo 54. This will give some
clearance for the rear trigger. Photo
55. Replace the stock, put on the
barrels and forearm and then open
MAKE
THE
DIFFERENCE!
/
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December 2009
no Fair ,
By Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315
Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315
compadre and I were sitting
around the shop quaffing our
usual brand of poison—
steaming hot Arbuckles strong
enough to float a #8 horseshoe—
when he up and bellered somethin’
about how life is so unfair.
“How so?” sez I.
“It’s just not fair. You got too
many cool toys.”
Those “toys” were a quirt, a couple of rawhide reatas, a stock whip,
and a set of hobbles. Good cowboy
A
the Yankee-built rope has no
attaching point to it, indicating
that its owner was a dally roper.
The gaucho reata has a really
nifty twist braid on its bitter end
with a big ol’ button. There’s
mighty little in print about the gaucho saddles and methods, so I can’t
say for sure whether this was a way
to connect to the saddle, or whether
it was a way to lash it to the saddle
for carrying ‘til needed.
One of the things I wish I had
in my collection is a twisted reata.
There’s two ways of making a reata,
y’see. The first is by just taking
four or more strands and braiding
them together. The other is to twist
‘em similar to the way that rope is
twisted. They say that the twisted
type is easier to build, but harder to
repair. Mostly nowadays you see
The Aussie whip is most easily identified
by the unique “ball joint” where the lash
and handle join. American snake and
bullwhips do not have this feature.
working gear, the lot of it!
Take those reatas. Both are
rawhide, one of ‘em American-built
and the other from the land of the
gauchos. Both are finely braided.
The American one is a solid fourstrander with a fine San Juan
honda at the loop-makin’ end. The
Argentine started life as six delicate strands spliced down to four.
The loop end has an iron ring on it.
Now, that’s old! Today’s cowmen
frown on that sort of a business end
to a rope on account of it maybe hitting and putting a critter’s eye out.
The “bitter” or non-working end of
Some use a combination of braided
and twisted rawhide. Some are just
twisted. Nevada or buckaroo hobbles are made from leather, doubled
and stitched with slots cut in the
center to form up the required figure eight. Utah hobbles are a combination of two rings, a buckle, and
leather, while a set of figure eight
hobbles use a single ring. Dixie
hobbles are sort of like Utah hobbles except instead of rings they
use a couple of “twin loops.”
There’s another style called a
“Union” or military-style hobble
which has a ring in the center with
each part of the figure eight being
formed by a piece of leather and a
buckle. Chain hobbles are similar
to the Union style except they have
a piece of chain in the center rather
than a ring.
The San Juan style braided honda
is still used by buckaroos and vaqueros
all over the west. The iron ring honda
is considered obsolete for reasons
of safety to cattle and horses.
the braided ones.
The hobbles?
Simply put,
they’re horsie handcuffs. In the
California and Southwest traditions, horses aren’t picketed at
night. They’re restrained by hobbles on the front legs. And, if you’re
wondering about the effectiveness
of that … Yup, it works pretty well.
Mind, there’s always a smart-alecky
horse somewhere who’s learned to
hop with his front legs and run with
his back enough to leave their rider
a-cussin’ when he discovers his
mount’s unique talent.
Hobbles aren’t all braided.
hailed from. Another tattler was
his quirt. (Quista on some ranges.)
This is the short, loaded whip of the
cowboy. “Loaded” means the handle
has something in it to give it body or
weight or both.
In some, this
weighting is done with a core of
rawhide bound up with string and
rolled tight. On others, it is a fat,
iron spike nail inserted in the handle, while others are built over a
leather or canvas bag filled up with
buckshot. The preference depends
on the territory and the amount of
flexibility desired.
The other thing that makes
quirts different is the way the lash
or popper is built. In old Mexico
where horses were often handled in
a rough or even cruel way, the lashes were narrow and nasty. Up north
in saddle bronc country, they preferred ‘em with thick handles and a
wide lash—not to punish a horse,
but to frighten him. If you popped a
colt on the nose with a wide lash, it
The handle of this quirt was made with a
bag loaded with shot. It is heavy and very
flexible. Its lash is typical of many cow
ranges. The hobbles are braided in the
vaquero and buckaroo tradition.
There’s also hobbles made from
an old gunnysack. I have talked to
some old timers who insist those are
the best hobbles that can be had
‘cause they’re free, and they won’t
skin up a horse’s legs. That might
have been so years back, but I know
of mighty few feed sacks that aren’t
made of either paper or polymer
nowadays, and that tradition is
beginning to vanish from our ranges.
Back toward the end of the
1800’s it was said you could tell a
puncher’s home range by looking at
his gear. Hats and chaps and saddles all told tales of where a hand
really popped! Sort of like swatting
a kid’s diapers. They paid attention!
A quirt was a mighty handy
tool. It was equipped with a loop at
the end of the handle. It was most
often carried over the horn of the
saddle ready for action when need
be. It was sometimes slung off the
wrist, but it was NEVER used from
this position. The proper way to
hold the quirt was with the thumb
and a couple of fingers on the end of
the “wrist loop.” This gave you the
longest reach and the most action
you could get. The other reason for
never using the quirt with the loop
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around your wrist was that this
was a great way to get hurt.
Broken or dislocated wrists were
not welcome back where doctors
were few and far between!
Whips weren’t often used by the
cowboy. They were the tool of the
bull whacker, stagecoach driver, and
the feller who ran the pit ponies
down the mines. If a puncher had a
whip, it’d most likely be a bullwhip
or a snake whip. The bullwhip had a
rigid wooden handle, while the
snake whip had a limber handle
made similar to the handles of quirts
built with bags of lead shot in ‘em. A
small snake whip could be conveniently coiled into a pocket or saddlebag. It was easy to hide there for
a night on the town. While it may
have been naughty to carry a gun in
town, there were no laws against
whips, and slinging one of those
around your head by the lash, loaded
end toward your opponent made for
a crowd clearer! A quirt could also
be used in this manner and also
made a pretty nice bludgeon!
Aussie-style whips were rarely
used. They are marked by a knotted connection of the lash and handle which acts like a ball joint. To
this day, Americans have a prejudice toward the Aussie whip and
the Aussie’s to the bullwhip. Don’t
ask me why.
Compadres, there’s all kinds of
cool cowboy stuff out there. You
just have to open your eyes and see
where it is and what it’s used for.
Sometimes it’s not the piece itself
that makes things cool. There’s
provenance, ownership, and a good
yarn that make these items special.
Keep an eyeball peeled for ‘em.
They add to our history, our sense of
persona, and to our sense of cowboy.
As usual, I invite comments
and/or crabbing. Gimme a holler at
706-692-5536 or purdygear@wind
stream.net if you have anything to
say or add. You can also reach me
through the link on my website:
www.purdygear.com.
GIVE TO THE
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Palaver Pete,
SASS Life/Regulator #4375
As a friend much smarter than I
said recently, “there ain’t no more
science fiction.”
icture a Hell Town Stage-—a
long street with buildings on
each side runs down the middle of town. The town is totally
deserted. The only thing moving is
the saloon sign swinging in the
breeze about half way down the
block. You stand in the middle of the
block, looking down the deserted
street, and all you can see are four
knockdown shotgun targets at the far
end. Nothing else presents itself.
The Timer Operator is to your right,
and slightly behind you, and the
three Spotters are positioned to see
the entire street.
Your revolvers are loaded with
five rounds each and holstered. Your
rifle is loaded with nine rounds and
staged straight up half way down the
block, and your shotgun is similarly
staged (open and empty) at the end of
the block 10 feet in front of and
slightly to the right of the shotgun
knockdowns.
The scenario states as you walk
the long street, two bad guys will
jump you, at which time you dump
five revolver rounds on each one.
There are six bad guy targets situated on either side of the street. These
bad guys are electronically operated
and are set to pop-up in different
locations for each shooter. The shooter doesn’t know exactly where, or on
which side of the street the bad guys
will appear, but when they do appear,
the Shooter has three seconds to
plant his feet, draw his pistol, and
dump five rounds on the metal bad
guy target. After shooting the first
bad guy, you holster and continue
walking down the street. All this is
done on the clock. The T.O. is walking and timing behind you as you
move along.
You can’t pick up either long gun
until you get to them. When you pick
up the rifle and use it, you must take
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it with you so it’s not pointed at your
back after it’s shot. Like the pop-up
bad guys, you have no idea where the
rifle targets are—they will appear as
you move along, and when they do,
you must again plant your foot, and
sweep the three rifle targets from
either direction for nine rounds.
There is no time light associated with
the rifle targets. After shooting the
rifle, you can move more quickly to
the shotgun, taking the rifle with
you—you exchange the rifle for the
shotgun and knock down the four
shotgun targets (either direction),
ending the stage.
“Is the Cowboy ready,” asks the
T.O.?
“Could you put the timer closer to
my right ear please?”
“What did you say?”
“Could you put the timer closer to
my right ear please?”
“Okay, I have trouble hearing
also. Is the Cowboy ready now?”
“Yes.”
“Stand by,” Beep!
You start to walk the street.
Nothing moves—10, 20 steps, and
then … Bad Guy No. 1, a full sized
metal target springs up alongside the
bank on the left side of the street.
You stop, plant your feet, draw your
first revolver and dump five rounds
on the culprit … You must do this
within three seconds or a timed light
affixed close to the bad guy goes on,
and it’s a five second penalty if you
don’t beat that clocked light. This
time you beat the light with surprising speed—you are very happy with
yourself. You holster your revolver
and continue your movement down
the long street.
“Watch for the second bad guy,”
advises the T.O … Heeding his
advice, you are all eyes.
You can’t tell where the next bad
guy is going to pop-up because the
stage is set so the pop-up targets
vary from shooter to shooter.
So, on you go, suspecting the next
“Is the Cowboy ready,” asks Mid Valley Drifter, the T.O.?
“Could you put the timer closer to my right ear please?”
responds the shooter, The Legend.
“What did you say?” asks the T.O.
“Could you put the timer closer to my right ear please?”
“Okay, says the T.O., I have trouble hearing also.
Is the Cowboy ready now?”
“Yes.” “Stand-by,” beep!
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bad guy will spring up from the right.
But no, you are wrong. He’s right in
front of you, hidden behind a bale of
hay, and you quickly note as he
springs up his revolver is aiming
right at you. As with the first
revolver, you plant your feet, draw
your second revolver, and dump five
rounds on him … but you note the
light came on, indicating it took you
longer than three seconds to react …
a five second penalty. You grit your
teeth and plod on.
You now arrive at the location
where the rifle is staged. You pick it
up, but there’s nothing to shoot at
yet. You plod on with your rifle at the
ready, and suddenly, from behind the
shotgun knockdowns, three bad guys
pop up. You plant your feet and
quickly sweep the three from either
direction, three times (these are
tough bad guys, and they need to be
shot more than once). Now you can
add speed to your movement. You
quickly move (read run) up to where
the shotgun is staged, and exchange
the rifle for the shotgun (once again,
staged upright). Sweep the four shotgun knockdowns from either direction (all must go down), and as soon
as the last one goes down, it’s the end
of the stage.
The T.O. looks to the Spotters who
have trailed behind and all three
agree the stage was shot clean, but
there was one five-second penalty for
being slow on the second revolver.
“Time: 54.02 seconds,” announces the
T.O., “and one five second penalty for
being slow on the second revolver, for
a total of 59.02.” The T.O. directs you
to pick up your long guns and head
for the unloading table. You think to
yourself, “not bad for an Elder
Statesman.” You head for the unloading table, where the Scorekeeper is
located. You smile at the Scorekeeper
and check to ensure she has registered your time correctly at 59.02 seconds. “Not bad,” she says, and then
teasingly adds, “but Badlands Bud
shot it in 28 seconds, clean!”
Okay, since you have some influence in the club, you make a mental
note to request a future change to the
scenario so it reads: all shooters
under the age of 22 start the stage
with a 30-second handicap. Now,
that’s my idea of stage fairness—nice
try, Palaver Pete!
Devising targets with timing
devices, as are envisioned in this scenario is becoming second nature to
inventive cowboy minds. Delaware
Coop, SASS #69691, tells us of the
“Too Dang” targets he and the late
Too Dang Frank designed that permit shooters to shoot the guns and
hats off bad guys as was done in BWesterns of yesteryear (June 2009
issue of The Cowboy Chroicle, page 50).
Although the “Too Danged” targets
are not electrically controlled or
timed, they represent a step in that
direction.
I believe Interactive
Stages, with reactionary targets as
described here will soon be tried by
more clubs in the near future. As a
friend much smarter than I said
recently, “there ain’t no more science
fiction.” Whatever you can think of
can be created and enjoyed, as long
as it’s safe and in accordance with
SASS rules. As Bing Crosby said in
several road movies, “there’s no bout
adotit.” Be smart and be safe. You’re
a Daisy if ya do.
PS: Planting your feet and drawing
either pistol in under three seconds ain’t fast draw. SASS Competitors in our game today draw
in less than 1.50 seconds after
the “beep,” and that’s at a dead
stand still … maybe even faster.
Think Badlands Bud, Evil Roy,
Long Hunter, and Holy Terror,
and you’ll get my drift.
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December 2009
dispatCHes From
Camp Baylor
The Engraving of Aspen Filly
By Captain George Baylor, SASS #24287
Capt. George Baylor,
SASS Life #24287
’ve known Aspen Filly for several years. She is an active vendor
at western SASS events (Aspen
Filly’s Merchandise) and a hard
worker for the Sand Creek Raiders.
In 2009 she was in charge of vendors. She also shoots B-Western and
wears costumes matching her husband, Aspen Wrangler.
I had been admiring her work on
engraving at her booth for some
time. She did classic engraving, and
also things I didn’t see other
engravers do, animal portraits particularly. I didn’t think much of
engraving my “working” guns,
though. Then, Bighorn told me a
I
The dive-bombing eagle
is from an Air Medal.
A nickel plated, engraved ‘73
A MACV crest is on top of the grip
frame. The palm from the
Vietnamese Gallantry Cross goes
down the back strap with a star
at the bottom.
A classic buzzard
A stagecoach at full speed
story of one of his guns being stolen
at an event and then dropped in the
parking lot because it was engraved
with his name on it, and thus harder
to pawn than usual. I thought, “oh,
an excuse to spend more money on
guns! I’ll do it.” I asked Aspen Filly
if she could put my alias on the barrel in something other than script.
She said she could match the font
Ruger used. So, I had her put my
alias on the barrel and my SASS
number on the bottom of the grip
frame. I was extremely pleased with
the results. Stainless steel is hard to
engrave, and I really liked the looks
of the font used.
A very detailed eagle
Fast forward a year, and I had
her put a MACV crest (Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam, the
unit I worked for in the late
Southeast Asian Unpleasantness).
Several of my 1911’s had MACV
emblems inlayed into the grips. The
top of the grip frame seemed to be
perfectly shaped for it.
That went so well we started
thinking what to do with the rest of
the guns. I managed to sell a gun I
had won, and it provided seed
money. Since we had the MACV
emblem on the gun, we thought
about other mementoes of my misspent youth. Some years back The
Redhead had put some of those trinkets in a shadow box. So, I dug it out
of where it’s stored in the bus. Aspen
Filly started sketching. She has an
art degree and a Masters in technical theater. She has made a lot of
costumes for theater companies, as
well as costumes for SASS members.
She has won several costume contests herself. I seem to remember
her winning best-dressed vendor at
Winter Range.
She showed me the sketches, and
I let her run with it. The result was
Aspen Filly at Winter Range in
the winning costume she made
herself. A judge’s eye view …
Frontiersmen want to be able to
leave the same chamber unloaded
every time. On the outside
I had Aspen Filly engrave the last 3
digits of the serial number over the
correct chamber. On the front
of the cylinder, Aspen Filly engraved
this circle with emphasis marks
so I can keep it empty.
magnificent. Items of “military heraldry” are engraved on two Ruger
Old Armies. It is all tied together
with traditional engraving. They’re
unique and very personal.
Aspen Filly decided she wanted
to do gun engraving after she and
her husband, Aspen Wrangler,
became active in SASS in April 2003.
She went to an engraving school by
Glendo Corporation in Emporia,
Kansas. The students were mostly
jewelers. They worked 8 to 5, had
dinner, and went back for more from
6 to 10. She bought a patented system for holding barrels and cylinders
from Bill Falk.
“I use a Gravermax with carbide
gravers. This type of engraver uses
air and electricity to make it go. This
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Ruger Old Armies “Heaven” and
“Hell” engraved by Aspen Filly.
engraving. I’ve seen some “tap tap”
guys handle the stainless just fine.
But, I wanted to engrave now and
not 10 years from now. I also drag
my microscope around with me. I
wear bifocals but can’t see what I’m
doing without my microscope.”
Of the Rugers she said,
“Engraving is something I really
enjoy doing, and I really enjoyed
doing these pistols. It was something totally different than anything
I’ve ever done before. Guess I just
love a challenge.” Boy, did she ever
meet the challenge.
“Because I’ve spent my time in hell”
helps on most of the stainless
revolvers. Though I have to admit, I
think these cylinders (the Rugers)
are some of the hardest I’ve ever cut
on. (Burned up a good portion of a
carbide engraver keeping the point
sharp). But, it is still a form of hand
“I know I’ll go to heaven …”
A classically engraved pair of USFAs
Heaven and Hell
The results speak for themselves, and a picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ve included pictures
of several of her guns instead of
more blah blah. As for the engraving
on the barrels of the Rugers, the
quote came from a particularly bad
day in a swamp in Cambodia. My
lieutenant said, “Boy, if you ever
wanted to describe hell, this is it.” I
though of a quote attributed to a
Marine at Iwo Jima, and I replied, “I
know I’ll go to Heaven, because I’ve
spent my time in Hell.”
Thus, the guns are named
“Heaven” and “Hell.” After I got the
guns back at Outlaw Trail, I went 27
stages without a pistol miss that
One reason to own a ‘66 is because
they look so good engraved.
You can see a Purple Heart
and a Bronze Star. The laurel
wreath from the Combat Infantry
Badge encircles the cylinder.
weekend. I give full credit to Aspen
Filly’s engraving. If you want your
guns to look better than you shoot,
you can reach her at:
[email protected].
Her website is:
http://www.aspenfillys.com/
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December 2009
wHat’s
tHe
Call?
By Oracle, SASS #4854 Regulator, RO-III
TG – The Bitter Creek Rangers
ou are seeing an addition to
“What’s the Call?”—that of
SASS #2495 Pale Wolf Brunelle’s picture. He is on the RO Committee
and has answered most of the questions asked.
Are we going to enforce the costuming guidelines we now have?
Some of the comments about con-
Y
suming I’ve seen …
1 We are afraid we will lose shooters
or not be able to enlist shooters to
our game.
2 We will turn into just another
steel clanking shooting game.
Besides the firearms, our attire is
what helps set us apart, is part of
our uniqueness.
3 I am seeing less costuming more and more.
Shoes are becoming more
common than boots. Can
a cowboy shoot bare
headed and wearing a
tee shirt?
4 Baseball caps coming on
after a match for the
award’s ceremony.
5 I’ve attended a number
of annual matches where
the
“winners”
were
advised to NOT come up
to receive their awards
‘out of costume’ ... they
could see the Match
Director afterwards.
Number 5 needs enforcement.
The requirement to “remain in costume for ALL match events ...” was
enforced.
Hint: See pages 3, 15, 16, 25, and
26 of the Shooters Handbook
Can a Match Director disqualify
a participant for improper costuming? What’s YOUR call?
“No call”
“Procedural” – 10 seconds
“Minor Safety Violation” – 30
seconds
Pale Wolf Brunelle
“Stage Disqualification” – 999.99
seconds
“Match Disqualification” – 999.99
seconds for every stage remaining
Since we are on clothing, the next
question is … were wooly chaps made
from sheep or goat? This answer will
NOT be in SASS literature, but it is
interesting.
Remember, if you don’t know, or
are unsure … LOOK IT UP! If you
can’t find it, the benefit of doubt goes
to the shooter.
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December 2009
tHe Capgun Kid rides
Artic Fox and the Posse By Three
Stroke of Organizational Genius
By The Capgun Kid, SASS #31398, and Artic Fox, SASS #39883
Artic Fox, SASS #39883
Happy Posse—they shot the “posse by three!”
very so often a little pearl of
an idea falls out of a tree on a
body and really makes a day,
or an event, or a shoot special. When
I pulled my beetle into the parking
area of the River Junction Shootist
Society’s at the end of their descending gravel road, it was already
assumed I’d have a great time at
their annual Ambush.
Now shooting with these rednecks (according to the Obama
administration and our own Congressman Murtha, those of us in
Western PA are not bigots ... just rednecks ... and we rely addictively to our
guns and bibles) for about four years,
I realized while parking the car I had
made some real valuable friends.
One of the first to welcome me to
Pittsburgh was a coyote named Artic
Fox. Yeah ... I know ... he left out the
first “C” in his name. Bugs me all
the time. We knew each other from
past Pennsylvania matches where I
pulled in with my New York or
Connecticut pards, so you can say we
go back about ten years.
Well, this weekend was Artic’s
time to shine and drop that little
pearl right on us. After all the hands
were shook, coffee slugged down,
morning posing was over, and Pledge
of Allegiance and Prayer were said,
we broke up into our posses and
trudged up the gravel hill that led
away from their little western town
E
Action Order
for Each Stage
and to their shooting bays.
Bullets were coming out of boxes,
ear-plugs were being stuffed into the
sides of our heads, and gunbelts
were being buckled on when Arty
cracked his idea on us. We were
going to divide our posse into three
groups rather than two.
Huh? Wha’d he say? Folks
began pulling their earplugs to make
sure they heard right. They did.
I dunno whether Artic Fox spent
hours on this idea, or whether it
came upon him in the car the way so
many of life’s answers do for those of
us in sales/service when we are alone
in the car and the satellite radio just
gets boring enough for the mind to
wander, or whether he thought of it
on the way into the shoot. But, I tells
you what, matey … it really made
the weekend a lot more fun.
Arty figured out the two constant
bugaboos that plague all posse’s are
the idle time (or complete lack of it)
and the gradual degradation of shooters in their duties when not shooting.
This was the first posse I’ve ever shot
with where those problems disappeared entirely. Nobody had to bear
more work because others did not,
everybody got time to themselves to
fool around with their gear, go to the
blue room, or just chat with each other.
The work parties kept everything
moving, and we really moved along.
Here’s how he did it. Each group
rotated from shooting to working to
idle in the same sequence for each
stage. By the end of the second stage,
everybody got the hang of it, and we
really whizzed along with no boredom, inactivity, shirking, or all the
other foibles that come with a posse.
I suspect, but cannot prove, most
of us were more alert, less prone to
procedurals.
Artic Fox calls his idea ... “PosseBy-Three.” It is for those zones of
organization when shooters show up
and register and there are enough to
make two big posses rather than
three or four small, unsafe ones. The
club can conceivably mandate it, or
leave it to the Posse Leaders to use
the idea when the shooter’s names
are read and posses fall out on their
way to the morning’s first stage.
Here’s how Artic Fox organized,
ran, and wrote it up:
Posse by Three
Posse size:
15-30
Setup:
Divide large posse into three equal
groups.
Select leader for each group and, if
possible, include one or more
RO’s capable and qualified to run
a timer.
There are three RO’s
There are three loading/unloading
officers
There are three scorers to share
the clipboard and shooter sheets
There are three sets of spotters,
brass pickers, and target setters
Operation:
Simple, one group shoots, one
group works, and one group is off
(resting, potty, or water break, etc.).
This group must stay away from the
line and loading/unloading areas so as
to not interfere with the ‘work’ group.
It really makes a difference when the
posse is shooting in a small or crowded bay. You rotate in the same order
for each stage, so that each group
knows when to shoot, work, and rest.
When the scorer or posse leader reads
the shooting order, you make sure
everyone knows when to rotate.
The Posse Leader is the chief
RO, the posse ‘works’ with the Posse
Leader as the final posse authority.
Once you get this plan rolling, the
‘posse team’ nearly manages itself.
Everybody works, and everybody
has a chance to rest and relax a little bit on each stage. Team morale
is high, energy is maximized, and
the posse will be less tired at the
end of the day.
I was quite surprised when Artic
Fox announced this as we made
ready to shoot, and even more surprised at how any grumbling quickly
turned into an efficient workflow ...
and how many people I got to chat
with as we shot through. It was one
of the fastest posses I’d ever been on.
As a stand alone, you can’t miss
by going to the River Junction
Shootist Society’s club to shoot, but
Artic Fox, with minimal effort, really
contributed a lot to this event.
Don’t shoot yore eye out, kid.
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In Memory Of
RIPSHIN, SASS LIFE #20556
TG, REGULATOR
By Horsetrader, SASS Life #20213, Regulator
’m not sure how or where Mike
Woods, aka Ripshin, SASS Life
#20556,TG, Regulator, first learned of
Cowboy Action Shooting™, but it was
something he was extremely excited
about. So excited that when I bumped
into him at a local hardware store, he
couldn’t stop talking about it. I had
never heard of Cowboy Action
Shooting™, but Ripshin had already
attended several matches in Charlotte,
North Carolina, home of the Carolina
Rough Riders, and wanted desperately
for me to go with him to a match.
After several attempts at convincing me this was something I, too, would
enjoy, I finally gave in and reluctantly
rode with him to Charlotte one Sunday
morning. That was ten years ago. We
both loved Cowboy Action Shooting™
and with only two or three matches
under our belts, we were returning
I
from yet another match in Charlotte
when we both, practically at the same
time, looked at each other and said,
“We can do this. We can build a cowboy
club.” We were nearly halfway home,
and for the remainder of our trip we
tossed around potential names for this
club we wanted to build. The Hibriten
Guard and Caldwell Cowboys were
considered, as well as several others,
but as we crossed Castle Bridge over
the Catawba River, I thought of
Gunpowder Creek, which flows
through central and southern Caldwell
County. Thinking it sounded cowboy, I
offered that up as a suggestion for part
of our club’s name. Ripshin thought for
a few minutes and then tossed out
Regulators, and The Gunpowder Creek
Regulators was born.
For nearly a year we searched for a
location to build our club, but since
Cowboy Action Shooting™ had not yet
been introduced to the area, no one was
interested. We offered our idea to several established shooting clubs, but
were turned down. Meanwhile, we
spent our time selling raffle tickets and
raising money to buy targets, writing
bylaws and articles of incorporation,
and laying the groundwork for our
club. Ripshin owned some property in
the Patterson community just north of
Lenoir, North Carolina and finally,
after being turned down for the third or
fourth time by wildlife clubs, he decided if no one wanted to host our club,
we’d just build it on his land.
So, in October of 1999 we held an
informal gathering on Ripshin’s property and invited several of our friends
to attend. We provided the firearms
and ammunition and tried, as best we
could, to explain what Cowboy Action
Shooting™ was all about. After shooting a couple of stages, we notified the
group
The
Gunpowder
Creek
Regulators would hold their first official match on the second Saturday of
November and, if those in attendance
liked what they had seen, they were
welcome to join us. When the second
Saturday finally rolled around we were
surprised to have ten shooters show up.
Excited about what we were doing,
Ripshin and I set out on a labor of love
that lasted for the next nine years. We
literally spent every minute of our
spare time at the range building stage
props and doing everything possible to
turn his small piece of ground into a little western town. We introduced
things to our sport most clubs had
never even considered. We were told
over and over again two people could
not possibly build a cowboy club by
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themselves, but we were determined
and never stopped working.
Before long those ten or so shooters
showing up at our matches turned into
twenty, then thirty, and, almost before
we knew it, this little ten man cowboy
club had grown into one of the largest
in the state. After a couple of years we
were averaging forty to fifty shooters
per match and saw as many as seventy
several times, mostly because Ripshin
never tired of “working the crowd.” He
barely had time to shoot our matches
because he was so busy greeting new
shooters and spectators and sharing
his love of Cowboy Action Shooting™
with everyone that would listen.
For nine years Ripshin and I
worked as a team, I as club president
and he as Range Master. Then about a
year ago, I stepped aside and Ripshin
became president of our club. He continued to work tirelessly to make
Gunpowder Creek a great place to visit
and to bring new shooters to our sport.
Then tragedy struck.
When
Sixgun Shookster, SASS #44593, called
me that Sunday morning and told me
there had been an accident, dozens of
thoughts rushed through my mind as
to whom he could be calling about. As
he explained to me Ripshin had died as
a result of an industrial accident, it
was like a bad dream. We had been
best friends for more than thirty years,
and I couldn‘t imagine not having him
around. He was a man I respected,
loved, and admired. He taught me how
to build stuff and laughed with me
instead of at me when I made mis-
takes. We loved to hang out at the
range and “nail boards together” or
just talk about what we wanted to
build next. Once when we were building an outdoor toilet (long before we
had the nice bathrooms he and his
brother, Wes, built), I was struggling to
get my part of the job to come out right.
Ripshin just stood there looking at the
mess I had made and said, “Who cares,
its only an outhouse.” That quickly
became our catch phrase for the next
seven or eight years whenever we were
building something that just didn’t go
together the way we wanted … “Hey,
it’s only an outhouse!”
When we first began, Ripshin and
I didn’t know much about Cowboy
Action Shooting™. All we knew was it
was fun, and we wanted to do it. We
literally began with nothing and put
together a really nice little club that
quickly became quite popular. But
none of that could have been accomplished without Ripshin’s willingness
to take a chance and use his own land
for the club’s location. His personal
sacrifice, giving of his time, money, and
property, made it possible for hundreds, if not thousands of people to
enjoy the game he truly loved. Over
the years I often heard him jokingly
say, “For the money I’ve invested in
this club, I could have had a really nice
bass boat.” I think Ripshin said this to
emphasize just how much he loved
Cowboy Action Shooting™ and preferred it to any other activity in which
he could possibly be involved. He went
from knowing nothing about Cowboy
Action Shooting™ to being one of the
most respected figures in the sport. I
often traveled with him to other
matches in and out of state, and the
reception he received was fit for a king.
Even though he was revered by those
around him, you never saw a change in
him. Ripshin wore the hat well.
Mike “Ripshin” Woods was certainly a wonderful ambassador for the
sport of Cowboy Action Shooting™.
However, playing cowboy was only a
small part of his life. He was a loving
husband and father. He loved his
grandchildren dearly and was more
than just a brother to Wes, John,
Sanford, and Bonnie. To his many
nieces and nephews he was absolutely
the coolest uncle in the world. Ripshin
had been a fine police officer and was
respected by all those fortunate
enough to have worked with him.
Even though it’s been nearly thirty
years since he last pinned on the
badge, his impact on others was clearly evidenced by the number of law
enforcement officers paying their
respect at his funeral.
Ripshin wasn’t your “average
Joe,”as sometimes he’d do things we
didn’t expect him to do. For example,
not too long ago he went back to school
and received his degree. Very few people his age would have even attempted
that, but it was something he had set
his mind to do. He never thought of
himself as a smart man, but he truly
was. Those of us who knew him valued
his opinion and sought his advice regularly. Some of my fondest memories are
of sitting around on the porch at the
range engaging in “popcorn conversations” where I would listen to Ripshin
and his brothers talk about everything
from the history of the valley to current
events. We called it “porch therapy,”
and everyone enjoyed sitting there
talking, especially after matches. But if
Ripshin wasn’t able to be with us, we’d
all usually just go home. It simply wasn’t fun without him there.
On Thursday June 11, 2009 we
gathered at Lenoir Community
Church to say our final farewell to
Ripshin. The service was a beautiful
and fitting tribute to a great man.
Hundreds of people came to help comfort his family and say goodbye to a
cowboy and best friend whose equal
will never be seen again.
Not too many people can claim to
have brought as many shooters into our
sport as Ripshin. Even fewer can say
they provided the land, labor, and practically everything else needed to build a
club, most of it at his own expense.
Without Mike “Ripshin” Woods there
could not have been a Gunpowder
Creek Regulators and probably hundreds of current SASS members would
never have known about Cowboy
Action Shooting™. Those of us left to
carry on will never be able to thank
Ripshin enough for all he did to bring
Cowboy Action Shooting™ to Lenoir,
North Carolina. RIP, my dear friend,
we miss you so much.
REST IN PEACE
Mike “Ripshin” Woods
We’ll Meet You In The Morning.
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tales oF early CaliFornia
Solomon Pico and the Story of Zorro
By Col. Richard Dodge, SASS Life #1750
Col. Richard Dodge,
SASS Life #1750
. S. Highway 101 follows the
Pacific Coast along the old El
Camino Real – the King’s Road –
which was a heavily traveled path
dating from the very earliest of the
California Missions. As early as
1770, the Spanish established two
presidios or forts: one at San Diego,
the other at Monterey, some four
U
hundred miles up the coast, an enormous distance in those days.
The road follows the coast westward from Los Angeles past the lovely, famed city of Santa Barbara, located on a beautiful stretch of coastline
just a few miles east of where it
makes its sharp turn to the north. A
few miles up from that point, one
passes the small town of Los Alamos.
Thousands of car sweep past Los
Alamos every day without a thought
or notice. Lying just to the east of the
highway lies a line of low, rounded
hills—the Solomon Hills, and therein
lies a story, should anyone ever consider why “Solomon” Hills.
Not the Solomon of Biblical note,
but the Solomon of the famous and
powerful Pico family, a man whose
cousin, Pio Pico, was the last governor of Mexican California before it
became American California. The
Picos were probably the most influential Californio family in all
California—and that is why Solomon
is so little known.
Solomon Pico was the proud
owner of a rancho in Central
California in what is now Stanislaus
County along the Tuolumne River, an
area with some of the richest soil in
California even today. As happened
many times when the despised
Americanos
arrived
and
ran
roughshod over the land in a mindless quest for gold, Solomon lost his
rancho to an American who filed title
on his land. Unable to provide documentation of his ownership, Solomon
was unceremoniously evicted from
his home by the not too impartial
American courts.
We’ve all heard of Joaquin
Murietta and his vengeance on the
Americanos for the injustices done to
him and the death of his wife.
Joaquin wasn’t the only Californio to
turn to vengeance. A burning anger
seethed in many of the Californios,
their Spanish ire driven to maniacal
proportions as they drew the blood of
their tormentors. The first years of
California’s statehood were as bloody
as any in American history.
Since there was actually little
agriculture established in northern
California, where thousands of new
arrivals were gathered, it became
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TALES OF EARLY CALIFORNIA . . .
necessary for the merchants in San
Francisco to purchase cattle from
the plentiful herds of the southern
California ranchos and enormous
cattle drives followed the El Camino
Real over 500 miles to San Francisco. Enormous riches fell to the
Californios who had managed to
hold on to their land, but the situation also created an ideal situation
for Solomon Pico to take his measure
of vengeance.
Since gold was the currency of
the day, it was necessary for cattle
buyers to travel the King’s Road,
carrying the gold to purchase the
herds. It is not recorded how many
of them fell prey to Solomon along
the stretch between present day
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo,
but there were many. Solomon was
ruthless in his depredations on these
hapless travelers, routinely executing them with his knife or pistol and
cutting off their ears, which he gleefully displayed on a leather thong
hanging from the horn of his magnificent saddle.
At first, Solomon was regarded
as a hero by the Californios. He
freely distributed his booty to the
padres and the poor of the area
and—by the only existing account of
him—he was a handsome and dashing caballero, splendidly mounted
and armed with a brace of Colt
Dragoons, no doubt relieved from
one or two of his victims, and an
enormous Mexican knife.
Many of the old Californio families were not altogether opposed to
American statehood. They had been
disgusted with the rule of Mexico
City for decades, imposed by a series
of corrupt and unfit military governors. So it was with the Pico family,
who were not pleased by the antics
of cousin Solomon. As the American
courts and “justice” system, such as
it was, became more firmly established, the pressure to end Solomon’s
career began to grow. Many were the
stories of Solomon’s narrow escapes
and even one escape with outside
help from a jail where he had been
imprisoned briefly.
In the end, Solomon was forced
to reluctantly abandon California for
Mexico. He remained near the border, and it is said he was even
employed as a police officer for a
time before he was murdered by a
person or persons unknown.
Meanwhile, back in California,
the Pico family set out to erase any
record of Solomon, and they very
nearly succeeded. One has to search
long and hard to find any record he
even existed, but there are clues—
such as the Solomon Hills. Ask any
local around Los Alamos, and they
will tell you of the stories of Solomon
Pico and how he may have buried
some of his ill-gotten gold in that
bucolic range of hills just to the east
of town. They will also tell you he
was the original Zorro.
LITTLE KNOWN
FAMOUS PEOPLE
WAY OUT WEST –
By Joe Fasthorse Harrill, SASS #48769
i l l i a m
“Will”
D. Joe Fasthorse Harrill,
SASS #48769
Fossett served as
a lawman for more than 50 years. His career
started in the 1870’s when he served as assistant marshal in Caldwell, Kansas during the
cowtown’s heyday. He became the City
Marshal at Kingman, Kansas in 1881. In 1887,
he signed on as a construction worker building
the railroads. In 1889, he participated in the
Oklahoma Land Rush and later went back to
work for the railroad as a special agent.
As a U.S Deputy Marshal in 1897, Will
helped Deputy Marshals Heck Thomas and
Bill Tilghman capture infamous Doolin gang member, Little Dick West. That
same year, Fossett was appointed Chief Deputy of Oklahoma Territory. When
outlaws Bob Hughes and his gang tried robbing the Rock Island train at Pond
Creek, Oklahoma, Will was waiting. He killed Bob Hughes, and the rest of the
gang ran for their lives ... empty handed. The gang was rounded up a few days
later by Deputy Marshal Chris Madsen. Fossett rode with Bill Banks and his
posse to chase outlaws Zip Wyatt and Ike Black from their Gloss Mountain hideout that resulted in their deaths. Will Fossett died at in 1940.
W
And the odds are he was, indeed,
the inspiration for the legend of
Zorro. Johnston McCulley arrived in
the Santa Barbara area probably
around the turn of the 20th Century.
He would have heard of the stories of
Solomon, which were still told and
retold in the area and, being a
writer, was inspired to write.
He must have been touched by
the injustice that caused Solomon’s
turn to murderous vengeance from
being a peaceful Californio. The
early 20th Century, however, had not
reached a time of enlightenment and
political correctness.
There was
strong prejudice against the Mexican
population (and these were not illegal
immigrants, but fourth and fifth generation Californios) and McCulley
was reluctant to tell it like it was.
And so, he created a time for his
hero that never existed.
He placed Zorro in Old
California with the cruel Spaniards
as the villains, replacing the evil
Americans in a pueblo in Los
Angeles—a pueblo that never existed. Solomon Pico had been in the
Mexican army and had developed
martial skills with both sword and
firearms. He was a skilled horseman, as probably every Californio
was. Also, he was a dashing and
handsome man by all accounts—and
so Zorro became America’s first and
longest lasting “super hero,” few
realizing the real tragedy behind the
story. He became the inspiration for
future heroes who hid their identity
behind an unlikely alter ego like
gentle Diego Vega: Superman/Clark
Kent and Batman/Bruce Wayne are
the most well-known,
McCulley’s Zorro was a far cry
from the one popularized by Douglas
Fairbanks, Guy Madison, Anthony
Perkins, and Antonio Banderas. Nor
were the other characters of “The
Mask of Zorro” anything like the
bumbling characters created by
Disney. They were mean. Zorro took
great delight in grimly tormenting
his opponent with tiny sword pricks
all over his body before deftly carving his “Z” on the poor fool’s forehead. Sergeant Garcia was a cruel
and deadly foil for Zorro’s blade and
is eventually killed in a duel with
his nemesis.
So there you have it—the true
story of Zorro—one more legend of
Early California, embedded into
American literature as firmly as
that of the American cowboy,
reminding us of our sense of justice—and very subtly, of our own
past.
McCulley, Johnston; The Mask of
Zorro, The Curse of Capistrano,
Tom Doherty Associates, Ind., New
York, 1998
Dana, Don Francisco, The Blonde
Ranchero; Published by South
County Historical Society, Arroyo
Grande, California
Tompkins, Walker A, Santa Barbara
History Makers; Published by
McNally & Loftin, Santa Barbara,
California 1983
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getting started in CowBoy aCtion
tm
sHooting on a sHoestring,
revisted 15 years later!
Part one
Tuolumne Lawman,
SASS Life #6127
By Tuolumne Lawman, SASS #6127
“Cowboy Action Shooting™, as epitomized by SASS, offers a unique opportunity for the shooter and western history buff.
While “Spirit of the Game” is important in
SASS, let’s remember it is a shooting sport.
As it is hard to shoot in an action match
without guns … that is the first thing you
need for Cowboy Action Shooting™.”
hat is a quote from one of the first
Cowboy Chronicle articles I wrote fifteen years ago that was titled “Getting
T
you can still get started on a shoestring.
In 1994, a person could get a start in
Cowboy Action Shooting™ for well
under $1,000 if they shopped carefully.
When I started Cowboy Action
Shooting™ that same year, I had a total
of less than $875 invested in my armory.
I had a used Rossi Puma .44-40, a used
Rossi hammered coach gun, a .44-40
1875 Outlaw (Remington clone), and
EMF Dakota .44-40, both used.
Well done Winchester style rear sight, saddle ring,
and color case hardening.
Started on a Shoestring.” Many shooters
who have been around the sport as long
as I have will tell you SASS itself has
evolved away from its original roots as
envisioned by the original “Wild Bunch.”
Somehow the concept of “Spirit of the
Game” has seemly diminished in importance, and the “John Wayne Test” is a
thing of the past … That, however, is not
the point of this article. The purpose of
this series of articles is to tell you how
Unfortunately, in today’s market, you
will not even come close to that now!
Through the last fifteen years, much
has changed. The horrible exchange rate
between the US Dollar and the Euro
(about 1 Euro to $1.50 US) is certainly not
helping, as most Cowboy Action
Shooting™ guns come from Europe—
especially Italy. Prices on domestically
produced firearms like Marlin and Ruger
have not only been hurt by the interna-
EMF Rossi 1892 qualifies for
“Getting Started on a Shoestring.”
tional money market, but also
several factors here at home.
Post election hysteria has driven
demand up exponentially. Anyone familiar with basic economics
knows rising demand means
decreased available supplies and
rising prices. Credit card rates
going up also has an effect, as
people are reluctant to put rather
expensive (and un-necessary)
toys like Cowboy Action Shooting™ guns on high interest plastic. Another factor is the absolutely exponential growth of
Cowboy Action Shooting™ since I
started in it, which has caused
supply and demand problems
from time to time.
The increased cost of getting
started really struck me late in
2005. I was at a River City
Regulator match at Yolo when a
young guy, wife, and kids
stopped and talked to me. He
had a cowboy hat and cowboy
boots on. Both were new and did
not seem to be his normal wear.
They were probably bought for
the occasion. He told me he had
been reading about Cowboy
Action Shooting™ in several gun
publications, had become interested, and wanted to join SASS
and start shooting.
He asked me about my guns
and cost. That day I had the following ordnance with me in the
gun cart: a .44-40, charcoal blue
1860 Henry Military Model, an
Armisport .56-50 Spencer Model
1865 Carbine, a .44-40 1873
Uberti Deluxe 24" Sporting
Rifle, a Liberty II coach gun, and
a pair of charcoal blued
Cimarron Richards-Mason .44
Colt conversions. When I gave
him the run down on the cost of
each gun, he looked faint! I
explained he could spend about
half that buying used, getting
Vaqueros and a Rossi, etc., but
the shine was gone from his
eyes. He looked like his dog had
just died. Maybe it was just his
dream dying …
I realized back then I had
about $4,000-plus of shootin’
irons in my gun cart. Now
thinking about it, that total
would be closer to $5,000 to
$5,500 for the lot! These rifles
alone are retailing well over
$1,000 each! That really got me
thinking: “Is this sport getting
expensive, or what?” If you add
in the cost of action jobs, trick
short stroke kits, and the like, it
gets even worse.
Can you start on a “shoestring?” At first glance a newcomer like that poor guy may
say, “NO!” Even I was beginning
to think you couldn’t any longer.
Recently, however, I decided to
examine the possibilities. After
all, it is worse now than it was
then. After looking deeper into
it, however, I think you still can
“shoestring it” if you are careful. In
this article, I will talk about rifles.
For the main matches, you need a
lever action rifle (or slide action) in a
pistol caliber. I believe, just as many
of the old time cowboys did, it is simpler to have your pistol and rifle be in
the same caliber. Winchester, Uberti,
Marlin, and Rossi are currently producing the majority of their guns in
.45 Colt. I prefer .44-40, however, as
from a purely historical standpoint,
there were no production rifles in the
later half of the 1800’s in a .45 Colt
chambering.
USED RIFLES
With prices of new rifles being
what they are, shopping for the best
buy is important. Prices on new
Italian replicas of the 1860 Henry,
1866 Winchester, and 1873 Winchesters have gone through the roof
in recent years. They now retail for
over $1,000, and even up to $1,300
for the most part. Even the used
ones seem to start at $900 and up
anymore. That’s more than I invested in my whole armory 15 years ago.
A new 1866 was less than $600 back
then. You will pay hundreds more
than that now for even a used one!
The cheapest way is to go with a
used rifle.
Probably the best buy in the used
rifle category is still a used, nonCowboy configuration, Marlin Model
‘94 in either .38/.357 or .44 Magnum.
These can still be had used in the
standard, round barreled carbine version for around $350-$450 if you shop
around. If you like the .44 Magnum
or .38/.357, this is a good way to go.
The caveat here is that these have
become almost impossible to find anymore. The more period looking, newly
manufactured Marlin Cowboy II’s,
generally in .45 Colt or .38 Special
and sporting a 20 or 24 inch octagonal
barrel will easily run you almost
twice the price of the “non-Cowboy”
Marlins. New, these Marlin Cowboy
versions run around $700, so they are
not at all cheap. They would still be
below the Italian imports as far as
cost, but they are hardly what you
would call affordable!
A good buy, but even harder to
find than the used, standard (nonCowboy II) Marlins, are the older,
used Rossi Puma clones of the 1892
Winchester. They can be had in
.38/.357, .44 Magnum, .44-40, or .45
Colt. If you can find one, it will still
cost you at least $400 for a used rifle.
These Rossi ‘92’s can occasionally be
found in a gun shop, at a gun show, or
even on rare occasions on online auction sites like Gun Broker or Auction
Arms.
Don’t hold your breath,
though. I have been watching for
them online for some time, and rarely
find one at a reasonable price.
NEW RIFLES
In my estimation, the only new
rifle that qualifies for the “shoe-
December 2009
string” classification is EMF’s
really nice saddle ring carbine variaHartford Model 1892 made by Rossi.
tions, with a 20" round barrel in .44The good news here is that EMF has
40. (Somehow, shooting a non-rifle
them in a wide variety of calibers and
caliber (like .45 Colt) out of a preversions. These newly made rifles
1900 just seems like blasphemy!)
retail for around $500+, while offerIt is not anything like the origiing a variety of choices for the shootnal Rossi .44-40 carbine I had when I
er. They are much less expensive
started Cowboy Action Shooting™ in
than either the Marlin rifles in the
1994! This EMF .44-40 sample has a
“Cowboy” octagonal barrel configuravery nice color case hardened receivtion, and far more affordable than the
er, hammer, and lever. The case
expensive Uberti made Winchester
hardening is about on a par with the
lever gun clones. You can even save
Uberti made rifles. The bluing of the
more money by getting a “Blem,”
barrel, carbine butt plate, and barrel
which is nothing more than a trade
band is very deep and even, showing
show sample that has been handled,
almost black in the sunlight. This
or perhaps an author sample.
1892 Hartford has a very nice dupliEMF 1892’s
cate of the original Winchester semiBoyd Davis at EMF contacted
buckhorn rear sight, rather than the
Rossi and asked them to build an
stamped rear sight commonly found
improved and nicer version of their
on original Rossi 1892s. It even has
original 1892 to be marketed under
a close replica of the original
the EMF “Hartford” name. EMF has
Winchester front sight that is doveintroduced the Hartford 1892 line in
tailed in the barrel.
.357, .44-40, .44 Magnum, and .45
The overall fit finish on my
Colt. They have carbines with 20 inch
example is excellent. The action is
barrels and rifles with full octagonal
very smooth. In fact, it is much,
barrels in both 20" and 24" lengths.
much smoother than the average
They also offer a choice of finishes:
Rossi of the past. On my original
blued finish (with a choice of either
Rossi, I spent long hours working the
blue or color case hardened
action with polishing compound to
receivers), and all stainless steel modsmooth it out. Out of the box, my
els. (The .44-40, however, is available
EMF Hartford 1892 specimen was
only blued with the case hardened
smooth as silk. The trigger is an
receiver.) Many variations and calexcellent 2 lbs, with no creep or grit.
ibers are generally in stock and availI don’t know whether Rossi is doing
able. The EMF 1892 variation that I
an extra special finishing job on the
evaluated in this article is one of their
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Holster and Belt
2 Holsters and Belt
$425
$585
Holster and Belt
2 Holsters and Belt
Holster and Belt
2 Holsters and Belt
$155
$225
$190
$265
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None of the Uberti made Winchester
lever guns have a safety. When will
manufactures learn to keep the dang
safeties off of Cowboy Action
Shooting™ rifles? It may be a Brazilian
export requirement, as others import
guns from Italy without safeties.
AT THE RANGE
I used Black Hills factory .44-40
loadings, and even fired some of my
Hodgdon’s Triple 7 reloads from the
1892. The shooting was done on my
property outside of Jerseyville, in
Southern Illinois, at my 25-yard range
down by the creek. After firing over 50
rounds from the EMF 1892, I had no
malfunctions or failures to feed. The
EMF 1892 ate everything that I fed it
flawlessly. As to overall balance and
pointability, the 20” 1892 carbine is
great. I think it is very well balanced,
and for me is a natural “throw up to
the shoulder and point shoot” type
rifle. It is no wonder that the various
Winchester carbines have been popular for almost 140 years!
As to accuracy, it was very consistent. With minor sight elevation
adjustments, the EMF 1892 shot great
right out of the box with both loads. It
has an excellent sight picture and a
delightful trigger. I had no problem at
all keeping the groups at about one
inch from a casual rest at 25-30 yards.
I got one group with Black Hills that
was one ragged 3/4-inch hole! These
groups were obtained using the factory supplied semi-buckhorn rear sight,
GETTING STARTED IN COWBOY ACTION
SHOOTINGTM ON A SHOESTRING,
REVISTED 15 YEARS LATER! . . .
(Continued from page 61)
rifles for EMF, but they are really
well above average.
The wood to metal fit on the EMF
1892 is also very good to excellent.
The forearm and butt stock are certainly as good as most (and better
than some) of the Winchesters and
Marlins I have seen. The furniture
appears to be very dense Walnut, but
is actually a walnut stained South
American hardwood. It is nice enough
that it fooled me. Rather than a modern varnish finish on the wood like
Marlin and Uberti rifles, the EMF
1892 has an oiled type non-gloss finish
like the originals. It looks like a burnished boiled linseed oil finish, and is
done very nicely.
The left side of the EMF/Rossi
sample’s receiver I received has a
blued “saddle ring” and staple. This is
an attractive feature for me. In the
Old West, these were used several
ways. One was to use the standard
issue 3" wide single point, over the
shoulder sling and snap link that was
used by cavalry troopers to carry their
Sharps, Spencers, and other carbines.
These were used before, during, and
after the Civil War, and continued to
be used into the Indian Wars. Since
many of the folks that migrated west
had fought in the war, or did stints as
post-war frontier troopers, it is not
surprising these saddle ring staples
were commonly found on 1866, 1873,
and 1892 carbine models.
The second way these rings were
used was more common in the later
period of the west. In this method, a
leather thong loop was knotted
through it that was then looped over
the saddle horn. It helped keep the
carbine from being lost if it slipped
from its place across the seat of the
saddle between the rider and pommel.
I know that was a common way for
carbines to be carried at the ready, as
I have seen examples of period carbines with the bottom of the handguard worn in this way.
The only negative thing I can find
on the EMF/Rossi 1892 is the newly
added safety. Unlike Winchester’s tang
safety, they added to their limited production 1892’s, Rossi mounted their
safety on top of the bolt on these EMF
guns. This is good for those wanting to
mount a tang sight on the rifle. The
safety is a flat disk with two wings on it
at a 90-degree angle from each other.
When in the fire position, a red “F” is
showing. When on safe, a green “S” is
exposed. It is not a bad system, but I
question why it is even on the gun.
not a tang sight.
Off-hand shooting, the EMF 1892
performed equally well. I sighted it in
with my “pop can” sight picture—that
is 1 to 1 1/2 inches above point of aim
at 25 yards. It will be about 2" high at
50 yards, 1” high at 75 yards, and
about 1” low at 100 yards. I call it “pop
can” sight picture, because if I set the
pop can on the front sight in the sight
picture, I can hit it from 0 to 75 yards
without correction. I did a session of
“bounce the cans” with the EMF 1892,
and never seemed to miss out to about
40 yards, shooting off hand. That is
more than accurate enough for
Cowboy Action Shooting™!
I have always personally liked the
1892 Winchester carbine as a hunting
firearm. At about 5+ pounds in carbine
trim, it makes a dandy brush gun for
pig and deer, especially in .44 Magnum.
I am sure that original 1892’s in .44-40
have killed more than their share of
game in the last 118 years. I have some
great .44 WCF hand loads using a 200grain JSP with IMR 2400 powder to be
used in MODERN 1892’s and 1894
Marlins. They clock out at about 1950
FPS from a 20 inch barreled 1892. I
guess my problem with the 1892
Winchester was that, at least until
recently, I just never thought of the
1892 as a true “Old West Cowboy Gun.”
1892 WINCHESTER HISTORY
During and just after the Civil
War, Oliver Winchester’s original
Henry .44 rim-fire lever actions
spread westward across the continent.
Continuing west with his improved
1866 model (which finally carried his
name), early settlers started carving
out the wilderness with these rifles.
Winchester later upgraded the line
with the steel framed 1873 in the
more powerful .44-40, .38-40, and .3220 WCF cartridges. Using the same
basic action, Winchester continued on
with the larger frame 1876
“Centennial Model” in more powerful
blackpowder calibers like the .40-60
and .45-75.
In 1886, they released the sensational John Browning designed 1886
Model in several popular calibers,
including the .45-70 Government and
the new .50-90 WCF. Instead of the
earlier collapsing toggle links, the
1886 Model utilized a pair of lateral,
vertical locking lugs, located on either
side of a large, rectangular bolt. These
hardened steel lugs engaged the
forged steel frame and the bolt, traveling downward and releasing the bolt
when the action was cycled with the
familiar lever.
With the advent on “smokeless”
nitrocellulose based powder around
1890, Winchester decided to use this
action to make a scaled down 1886 for
the same pistol cartridges already
used in their tremendously popular
1873s. The new rifle could be loaded
with the stronger smokeless powder
rounds. This design, coupled with
more modern steel, created a much
stronger action than the toggle link
system used by the old iron framed,
1873s and 1876 Models.
The 1892 Winchester was a huge
success. Besides being much stronger
than the 1873’s, they were much
lighter, averaging between 5 ½ and 6
½ pounds. The 1892 was initially
introduced in the three already popular 1873 calibers: .44-40 (.44 WCF),
.38-40 (.38-WCF), and .32-20 (.32
WCF). In 1895, Winchester introduced their new .25-20 (.25 WCF) caliber in the 1892. The 1892’s were so
strong, that for a time, some ammunition manufacturers marketed special
“High Velocity” loads of .38-40 and .4440 rounds, for use ONLY in 1892
Winchesters and 1894 Marlins.
Instead of the 180 or 200 grain bullet
at 1250 FPS, you would get about
1700 to 1800 FPS! Using these “high
velocity” rounds in any 1873, however,
would have blown the rifle into expensive and lethal fragments. Because of
unfortunate mishaps and lawsuits,
these “High Velocity” loads were discontinued many years ago.
Winchester’s 1892 Carbines were
originally sold with 19" barrels,
switching to 20" barrels after about
serial number 250,000. Rifles were
standard with 24" octagonal barrels,
though round barrels and alternative
barrel lengths could be special
ordered. Fancy stocks, finishes, color
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case hardening, engraving, and other
bores are usually rough as a cob, sufoptions were also offered on special
fering from too many rounds of blackorders. In October 1893, Winchester
powder “5 in 1” blanks, and not
introduced a takedown model of the
enough cleaning.
1892. In 1924, a version of the 1892
Twenty-five or thirty years ago,
was also offered as the Model 53. It
the Brazilian firm of Amadeo Rossi
was modified to a lightweight, half
began making their “Puma,” almost
magazine, 22" barreled hunting rifle.
an identical copy of the 1892
Not being very popular, this model
Winchester, in .357 Magnum, .44
was discontinued in 1932.
Magnum, and .44-40 WCF. Early ones
All totaled, there were 1,004,675
had a very tacky Puma head
Model 1892 Winchesters manufacembossed on the receiver. Eventually
tured between 1892 and 1941.
this ornament was deleted. With the
Production stopped with the advent of
advent of Cowboy Action Shooting™,
World War II. Over half of them, more
Rossi eventually produced the 1892
than 600,000, were in .44-40 caliber.
.45 Colt. More recently, Taurus
The balance were made in the other
acquired manufacturing rights and
three calibers, with .38-40 WCF being
machinery for the Rossi line.
CONCLUSION
the next most popular. Interestingly
The EMF Hartford Model 1892 is
enough, the 1873 Winchester that the
a great re-birth of the 1892
1892 was supposed to replace still conWinchester, and it is an honest to
tinued to be manufactured alongside
goodness cowboy shootin’ iron. I give
the 1892 until 1923! Even though
the EMF 1892 rifle my “BEST BUY
Winchester and Browning have done
FOR THE BUCK AWARD.” It certainlimited runs of the Model 1892’s since
ly qualifies for the getting started on a
then, newly manufactured 1892’s
shoestring category. For much less
have not been widely available since
than half the price of an imported
before World War Two.
Uberti 1873 Winchester, and twoThe 1892 Winchester really did
thirds the price of a Marlin 1894
participate in the “Taming of the
Cowboy, you can have an accurate and
West!” If you think about it, there
distinctive looking piece of Cowboy
were still many outlaws like Harry
firepower. If an 1892 was good enough
Tracy, Butch Cassidy, and the
to use chasing Butch Cassidy or the
Sundance Kid on the “Owl Hoot
Daltons, I guess it is good enough for
Trail” as late as 1905 or so. The
me! I had originally planned on
Daltons were still plying their trade
returning the EMF author sample
in the 1890’s. The then new 1892
1892 after I wrote the article, but I
Winchesters were recorded to have
grew kind of fond of it!
been used in the violent and deadly
Even though they add to the fun,
Johnson County, Wyoming range war
you don’t have to have a replica or origin 1892. Many an old time sheriff,
inal 1873 Winchester rifle or Model ‘97
marshal, constable, or Texas Ranger
pump 12 Gauge. Nor do you have to
packed a ‘92 in a saddle scabbard or
have a “real” Colt Single Action Army
leather boot in a Model A Ford horseor a Schofield or Merlwin and Hubert
less carriage. It was a favorite tool of
Pocket Army to have a great time at a
lawmen and badmen alike in the
match. To me, half of the fun is the
lawlessness
of
early
1900’s
buying, selling, horse trading, shopOklahoma Territory.
ping, and research that goes into the
Original specimens are not really
sport, and the creating and outfitting
too hard to find since Winchester proof your own character. What other
duced over 1,000,000 of them. Many,
shooting sport gives you the potential
however, are generally in fair to poor
for so much enjoyment when you are
shape. Because of the strength of the
not actually at the range shooting?
1892’s action, many of the really good
I’ll see you in my next article
ones were re-chambered to .44
where I talk about pistols on a
Magnum years ago. The ones generalshoestring.
ly seen now are old movie guns, their
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December 2009
PRAECEPTOR, SASS LIFE #54783
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e
January 26, 1932 – August 26, 2009
VIGILANTE, SASS LIFE #6077
By Harry Longbaugh, SASS Life #29977
February 10, 1938-August 26, 2009
By Belle Mimi, SASS #71810
ewport News, VA – Praeceptor,
SASS #54783, aka Dr. John E.
“Jack” Anderson passed away August
26, 2009 of complications of
Wegener’s Granulomatosis, a rare
disorder that causes vasulitis, or
inflammation of the blood vessels.
Praeceptor was a member of
KC’s Corral in Mechanicsville,
Virginia. He served two years on the
KC’s Corral executive board.
Praeceptor was an active shooter in
various SASS affiliated clubs in
Virginia. He was a competitive athlete as well as a shooter. Some of his
accomplishments include 3rd Place
Elder Statesman at the 2005
Virginia State Championships, 2nd
N
place Elder Statesman at the 2006
SASS
West
Virginia
State
Championship, and 2nd place Elder
Statesman at the 2006 KC’s Corral
Annual Thunder in the Brush.
Praeceptor was a very unpretentious person. Most of his fellow
shooters did not know of his many
professional accomplishments: PhD.
in Psychology from Ohio State
University; acting President of
Columbus
College,
Columbus,
Georgia; and Past President of
Christopher
Newport
College,
Newport News, Virginia. After serving as President of Christopher
Newport College, he returned to the
classroom and his students at
Christopher Newport University.
His
cowboy
name,
Praeceptor, really captures his true nature
because it means
the “teacher of
the masses.”
Praeceptor
was my friend,
and I don’t
say
that
isney, OK – Vigilante (Verle
A. Dyar) was from Peoria,
Illinois where he worked 31 years
for Caterpillar Tractor Company
as a machinist and painter. He
also served in the U.S. Air Force
for four years. When he moved to
Oklahoma, he started shooting
with the Indian Territory Single
Action Shooting Society in 1998.
Vigilante was a quiet unassuming man who was ready to
help new shooters with anything
they might need—from
helping someone set
up their loading equipment to instructions
on how to hold
guns correctly.
For several
years he and
his
friend,
Shawnee
D
lightly. Our friendship of 28 years
began on a professional basis. It didn’t take long, however, to realize we
were bonding into a friendship that
would last a lifetime. His passing
leaves a void in all of our lives, but
we take comfort in the many things
he taught us, as well as the good
times we spent together.
Praeceptor is survived by his loving wife Joyce, of 53 years, three children, and three grandchildren. My
family had the good fortune of being
close friends and part of his extended family.
All of us are connected forever
by being part of the patchwork quilt
sewn by Praeceptor. We all are kindred souls in our connection with
him, and I can’t help but think this
was his plan. Praeceptor has now
crossed over the river and sits in
the shade of the trees. He will
remain in our hearts and part of
our souls forever.
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December 2009
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VIGILANTE,
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drive of approximately one hour each
way to the range to accomplish this
task. He did so without ever expecting anything in return. It was his
love of the club and the game that
was his reward.
Even though Vigilante was
unable to shoot much the last couple of years of his life due to poor
health, he wanted to stay informed
with all the ITSASS news. He even
got a little grumpy when he didn’t
get his newsletter. Vigilante will
be greatly missed by the ITSASS
club members.
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ast March we lost one of our
endowment members, Jerry
Hendrick, AKA Concho, SASS #16, to
congestive heart failure. Concho
always impressed me as a “sure
enough” cowboy … he was a “hand” …
he could ride, and he could work cattle … because of his heart condition,
in his later years, he did all of his
work from horseback … leaving all
L
Concho, SASS #16
6/21/36 – 3/7/09
By Tex, SASS #4
that dirty ground work to the kids!
In the early days when we were
first introducing horses into
Cowboy Action, Concho was one of
the riders. During opening END of
TRAIL ceremonies one year we
had a “grand procession” with a
couple dozen mounted riders in the
arena … and two young ladies riding hell-bent-for-leather in the
opposite direction carrying huge
US and California flags. Concho
was riding just in front of my
horse, Pistolero Pete, and me.
Concho’s horse saw the racing flag
first, quickly followed by Pistolero.
His horse was the first to break
and run! The last I saw of Concho,
he was flat of his back on the
horse’s rump with his legs straight
up in the air … and eyes the size of
saucers! Pistolero then also broke
and ran … ultimately ending in a
huge train wreck of our own!
Concho survived unscathed, of
course, to ride again.
.
Concho had a wonderful sense
of humor … he penned a number of
hilarious articles for The Cowboy
Chronicle … all dealing with his little brother, Johnnie Concho, SASS
#2926. The boys were raised in
Oklahoma where it would appear
Johnnie Concho was eternally in
trouble for one reason or another
or the butt of some joke … it’s a
wonder the kid ever grew up!
Concho was truly a man to “ride
the river with.”
Concho
married
Mounted
Shooter, Cassie Redwine, SASS
#2856, in July 1996. Cassie went on
to become a seasoned
Mounted
Shooter,
always with Concho at
her side. Concho is
also survived by
his son, Kenneth,
and
stepson
Kurt Stunk.
Concho has
been missed …
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. pennsylvania 2009 ,
state BlaCKpowder CHampionsHip
Smoke ’N Fire at Indian Creek
By Chalkdust Kid, SASS #17559
onegal, PA – The 3rd SASS
Pennsylvania State Blackpowder Shootout went off
without a hitch. Well almost, if you
don’t count the “gullywasher” that
delayed the match for forty-five minutes until sunny skies once more
shown over the town of River
Junction. The championship was contested by thirty-three eager cowboys
and cowgirls, participating in sixteen
categories. This year’s shootout was
designed by Match Director Deputy
Keck and called “A Cowboy’s Lament.”
The town of River Junction had
been spruced up for weeks waiting for
vendors, participants, and spectators.
It didn’t disappoint. There were plenty of places to spend your “sock money”
and lots of places on the boardwalk to
sit and rest those weary bones.
The six-stage match had plenty
D
Winners
B-Western
C Cowboy
Cowgirl
Cowboy
Duelist
49er
Frontiersman
F Cartridge
F C Duelist
Gunfighter
L B-Western
L Senior
Senior
S Duelist
S Senior
Wrangler
Dancing Dan,
SASS #35681
Doc Argyle,
SASS #12847
Sunshine Marcie,
SASS #64900
Punch, SASS #4368
Durango Dave Hickok,
SASS #60394
Dirty Dale,
SASS #61545
Long Tall Texan,
SASS #22449
Colorado Smith,
SASS #18861
Smoky Hill Thompson,
SASS #7923
Colorado Coffinmaker,
SASS #14513
Gemstone Janet,
SASS #74014
Margarita Lil,
SASS #19521
Harry 3 Fingers,
SASS #53021
Wild Bill Peterson,
SASS #48420
Dutch Henry Brown,
SASS #80362
Slowpoke John,
SASS #45304
of smoke ’n fire to go around in all of
the scenarios. Shooters held off bank
robbers in “Ranger Joe’s Bank and
Store” by shooting through the bars
of the telegraph office window. And,
they rode with the supply wagon in
“Buffalo Hump’s Revenge” keeping a
wary eye out for Buffalo Hmp and
his braves. Once the attack began,
shooters had to move around the
wagon, picking off the raiders from a
number of vantage points.
Nothing makes a cowpoke thirstier than a long trail drive. Shooters
got more than a drink when they had
to tangle with local townsfolk in “A
Sodbuster’s Saloon.” Speaking of cattle drives, shooters also had to hold
off cattle rustlers in the stage called
“The River Junction Homestead.”
“The Neck Stretching Party” had
the shooter climbing up onto the gallows. Fortunately, the neck being
stretched was not the shooters’. A
notorious Bandito was to be strung up
on the River Junction gallows. The
shooter had to be careful not to hit any
of the “crowd” (no-shoot targets) who
were positioned close to the actual
steel targets. (Everybody shows up for
a good hangin’!) These “no shoot” targets were a hoot and appeared quite
often throughout the stages. They also
kept the spotters on their toes.
“Morning Chores” found your
reading interrupted in Davey’s One
Holer. Shooters had to race out of
the outhouse to the barn and shoot
through the barn (in front window
and out the back window) to drive off
a gang of cattle thieves.
When the smoke cleared, everyone retreated to the town to clean
guns, “chew the fat,” and wait for the
awards ceremony.
Chuckwagon
Sam, the River Junction Shootist
Society president, kept the cookstove
hot and the drinks cold.
As the time drew near to “head
up the trail,” everyone vowed to be
back next year and hopefully bring a
few more cowpokes with them. As
with any major match, there are
many people who work behind the
scenes to make it a success. Mucho
thanks to all who contributed their
time, energy, ideas, and sweat helping the River Junction Shootist
Society host another successful
Smoke ’N Fire.
The 4th annual Blackpowder
Shootout at River Junction is
already in the works, and the devious Match Director, Deputy Keck,
plans to dust off the evil “Texas
Star,” the “swinging target,” and
more “no shoots” for next year.
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on president grant’s seCret serviCe
Agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon Ride Again!!
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By Sweetwater Jack, SASS Life/Regulator #28885
Photos by Jefferson State Regulators Members
ell, in SPIRIT, anyway. Turn
back your clocks to September 17, 1965, turn on your
television set, sit back, grab a handful
of buttered popcorn, and munch away
while watching the plot unfold on one
of the most innovative of the TV
Westerns of the day: “THE WILD,
WILD WEST.” Secret Service agents
West and Gordon not only “outfoxed”
the bad guys, they also dealt with
some of the most “deadly and ingenious” GIMMICKS you ever saw. The
years depicted were the early 1870’s
and U.S. Grant was the President.
We all loved that show and hated to
see it end after only 104 episodes.
I REALLY loved that show.
Years later I contacted the gentleman who was the head “prop master” for the series and had him make
me a copy of Jim West’s “inside the
sleeve spring-gun” gadget that, with
a twitch of the elbow, would release
the attached derringer and slam it
into your hand! Worked like a
charm! Well, there WAS this really
loud “ZANG!” noise as it presented
the derringer to my palm. Oh, and it
DID rip the right sleeve out of a couple of my best Wahmaker “Gambler”
shirts before I sold the thing to
somebody else. But, I digress.
One of the charter members of
the Jefferson State Regulators in
Southern Oregon, Just Bill, SASS
#16394, has been brooding about the
demise of his favorite TV Western
since the last show aired on April
4th, 1969. For the past ten years or
more, Just Bill has been proposing to
the Jefferson State Regulators to create a Cowboy Action Shooting™
match to commemorate “The Wild,
Wild West,” with all the gimmicks he
could fit into a five-stage match to be
shot in a single day, without exhausting the shooters. Finally fast-talking
the Jefferson State Regulators’ president and board of directors into
agreeing to the match, Just Bill was
off and running … I think the working word here is “off.”
Over the next few weeks, smoke
bombs were purchased, ore carts and
trackage refurbished, a portable
mine entrance and tunnel (don’t ask)
created, and other preparations for
the big day were made. Odd noises
came out of Bill’s shop at all hours of
the day and night. At one point he
stuck his head out of his shop door
and exclaimed, “Well, I’ve finished
the CANNON!” and promptly disappeared back inside. Our nervousness increased … planning meetings
were held … MORE planning meetings were held … And, finally, the
day of the big event arrived.
Shooters from all over the area
signed up in one of the categories
made up from the following choices:
Male or Female, Smokeless or
Blackpowder Pistols shot One-handed, Two, or Gunfighter style. Forty
shooters braved the 97-degree heat
to come out and receive a canvas
“rigger” bag filled with goodies and
items they’d need to keep with them
to complete the match.
Everything from colored-smoke
bombs, lengths of cannon fuse, shot
glasses, mystery vials with cork
stoppers, a couple of strange tablets,
a half stick of dynamite (more smoke
bombs), and a small throwing knife
were included in the bag, along with
snacks and Gatorade—everything
the well-equipped Secret Service
Agent would need for thwarting the
evil plans of a mad scientist, powermad dictator, or an especially evil
gnome … Dr. Miguelito Quixote
Loveless comes to mind, as well as
the equally evil Count Manzeppi.
The first stage involved going
down the “mine shaft” where you
placed your “dynamite stick” into a
steel bucket and lit it. Then, with
white smoke pouring out of the bucket, you returned to the entrance, shot
two poppers and clay birds, and
pushed an ore cart down into the
“mine,” stopping twice to shoot more
shotgun targets. At the end of the
track, you took your rifle (staged in
the ore cart) and shot an “exploding
powder keg,” which, when hit in the
large “bung hole,” set off a blank
blackpowder
shotgun
charge.
Emerging from the mine you fired
away at the pistol targets to finish
the stage.
The wind became a major factor
b
as the shoot went on, as it kept blowing out the “strike anywhere” matches we were using to light the cannon
and smoke bomb fuses. Gusts eventually took down the entire “mineshaft,” but had the decency to wait
until the last shooter had finished. A
note on those fuses … a couple of
shooters having trouble lighting
them in the wind attempted to gain
time by lighting the fuse in the MIDDLE, instead of the end, and found
out something about cannon fuse.
It’s waterproofed, and won’t LIGHT
anywhere but at the end!
All five of the stages in the
match had similar “tasks” to be
accomplished, on the clock, in addition to shooting your revolvers, rifle,
and shotgun as usual. Lots of movement was involved in all the stages.
Shooting rifle, revolvers, and
shotgun from inside the “Lithia
Springs Water Delivery Wagon” was
a requirement on one stage.
(Actually our “water wagon” started
life as a MANURE spreader, but we
made a new sign for it … you can
hardly tell the difference anymore
unless the wind’s JUST RIGHT). As
the Jefferson State Regulators’
range is located on land that incorporates an actual mineral spring, the
club’s annual shoot has always been
named “Shootout at Lithia Springs”
for good reason. The mineral water
bubbling from this spring is guaranteed to “put hair on your chest” …
(Most of the ladies don’t really care
for it, possibly for that reason.) Be
that as it may, one of the requirements on Stage 2 was for you to pour
a LARGE shotglass FULL of the
Lithia Springs water from a large
bottle and, when the timer beeped,
DRINK the glassful, throw speciallyweighted poker cards at a “cheating
cowboy” dummy, shoot two shots
from a derringer into another cheating gambler, then stand and start
shooting your other guns.
A few years back at a monthly
Jefferson State Regulators match, a
stage required you to pour TWO
shotglasses full of Lithia Water
before the timer went off. Then, at
the beep you slugged down ONE
glassful, shot the stage, and, if you
wanted a ten-second BONUS, you
drank the OTHER shotglass of
“spring water” … first time I ever
saw thirty shooters opt to NOT go for
a ten second bonus!!!
When all was said and done …
Oh, the CANNON? Yep, stage four
required you to break out of jail by
setting off a colored-smoke bomb in
the jail door, then fire the cannon by
lighting your length of cannon fuse,
and wait while it burned down to the
touch-hole. The blast actually fired a
1” rubber “cannon ball” down range!
When the last round went downrange, and the last smoke bomb had
gone out, and we could see again,
Treacherous Jack, SASS #64691 and
his wife, Derringer Donna, SASS
#64692, laid out a fantastic cowboy
spread for lunch, with burgers, hot
dogs, chili, fruit salad, and three different Dutch-oven pies with ice
cream. The awards ceremony was
held as everyone was still scarfing
up the delicious desserts (and some
seconds on the burgers and stuff). I
think it was planned so we’d still
have our mouths full, shortening the
“acceptance speeches” by quite a bit.
In short, a fine time was had by all.
Was it a “typical” cowboy match?
NOT BY A DARN SITE! A lot of
today’s matches have become “Stand
and Deliver” affairs, where you don’t
December 2009
have a lot of movement. You shoot
your revolvers, rifle, and shotgun in
the prescribed sequence and move out
of the way of the next shooter. No
lines to be said, nothing “extra” to be
done “on the clock,” and, in some
clubs, no “scenario” to explain what
you are doing at all. I understand the
really big clubs that see 90 or 100
shooters competing in a monthly
match CAN’T make the stages too
“complicated” or they’d be shooting a
five or six stage match for well into
the night. This match brought us
back to shooting a Cowboy ACTION
Match the “Old Way” … clear back to
September 17, 1965. I think West and
Gordon would have approved …
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. Canadian regional .
quarters and Boomtown were extensive; however, the leading man and
lady for this double feature were
Haweater Hal, SASS #55287, and
Victoria Diamond, SASS #60952.
This man and wife team turned in
academy award winning performances at both events.
Viewing the shootists collectively
from both events, you could almost
hear the William Tell Overture,
Happy Trails, the music from
Bonanza, or the theme from the
Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The best news is the SASS
Canadian Regional will be hosted once
more in 2010 by the Valley Regulators
of Boomtown, and Headquarters will
be the week before, another double feature worth attending.
Your intermittent correspondent
wishes to convey his appreciation to
some dedicated photographers, both
amateur and professional, for their fine
contributions. Their contributions
make The Cowboy Chronicle shine.
Bustup at
Boomtown Winners
Top Gun
Men’s 49er
Buckaroo
B Western
Cowgirl
Duelist
E Statesman
F Cartridge
F C Duelist
Gunfighter
L 49er
L Duelist
Grand Dame
L Senior
L Silver Sr
L Young Gun
Senior
S Duelist
Silver Senior
L Wrangler
Wrangler
Young Gun
Haweater Hal,
SASS #55287
Territorial Rider,
SASS #31939
Sharp Shooting Sam,
SASS #85250
Crotchety Old Grouch,
SASS #51188
Victoria Diamond,
SASS #60952
Hawken Tom,
SASS #74274
Minto, SASS #56175
Sunwapta Haze,
SASS #63407
Porcupine Quill,
SASS #78510
Too Dusty,
SASS #5447
Dallas Dancer,
SASS #42365
Sassy Six Shooter,
SASS #72687
Sure Shot Shirley,
SASS #83131
Pistol Packing Lainee,
SASS #82686
Miss Mary Spencer,
SASS #55147
Senorita Itchy Finger,
SASS #80037
Captain Copps,
SASS #57513
Kananaskis Kid,
SASS #62402
Kokanee Kid,
SASS #54531
Mrs Watchit,
SASS #74275
Antelope Id,
SASS #60817
Low Country Amigo,
SASS #80038
The Canadian Regional continues to attract competitors from all over North America
and determines the “best of the best” in Canada.
December 2009
.
Headquarters
.
Headquarters is the oldest Cowboy Action annual match in Canada.
Headquarters
Winners
Top Gun
Haweater Hal,
SASS #55287
Top Lady
Victoria Diamond,
SASS #60952
Buckaroo
Will T
B-Western
Teacher C,
SASS #72703
Cowboy
Kid Carson,
SASS #75960
Dualist
Little Edgy,
SASS #64366
E Statesman
Minto, SASS #56175
F Cartridge
Dennis Strobe
F C Duelist
Grey Fox, SASS #223
Gunfighter
High Country Amigo,
SASS #49198
Junior
Low Country Amigo,
SASS #80038
L 49er
Victoria Diamond
L Junior
Senorita Itchy Finger,
SASS #80037
L S Senior
Miss Mary Spencer,
SASS #55147
L Wrangler
Miss Bedazzled,
SASS #72424
Senior
Saskatoon Barry,
SASS #70295
Wrangler
Prairie Buck,
SASS #52033
Schutzen Target Winner
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The Great Nor’easter
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July 23-26, 2009
By Iron Pony, SASS #36769
,
elham, NH – Combine ten
great stages, outstanding
props, 250+ shooters, approximately 400 visitors with huge
amounts of rain, hot steamy temperatures, and what do you get?
The 2009 SASS New England
Regional, The Great Nor’easter, of
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There was good weather, and there was bad weather.
There was enough fun shooting to satisfy even the most
determined of shooters. And, through it all, the competitors’
enthusiasm showed through! Doc McCoy is seen here
sending fire and brimstone down range … by all accounts,
it was a wonderful match.
A handsome threesome
course. For good measure though
you’ll have to throw in dance lessons, great food served up by the
Boy Scouts, caterers and vendors
alike, side matches and the three
stage warm-up “The Squall” that
went off without a hitch, along with
a shoot-off featuring local and
national talent. Yep, that’s The
Great Nor’easter for you; organizers
aimed to please, and they hit the
center of every one of those targets
for a clean match.
The match, hosted by Fish and
Game Club, Inc. in Pelham, New
Hampshire, along with the help of
several New England clubs, celebrated the Concord Stagecoach and
the Overland Trail that made those
coaches famous. To set the “stage,”
the Concord Coach Society brought
out, displayed, and educated shooters and visitors alike with restored
Coach #XIV. No Hollywood prop,
this was the real deal pards; all
$250,000 worth of horse drawn
high tech transportation from right
out of our favorite time period. For
good measure, a beautiful twohorse team drawn surrey (with the
fringe on top) gave rides to all who
were interested.
Just for fun, on Saturday morning we staged what may be, depend-
ing on the Guinness Book of World
Records, the largest stagecoach robbery on record to help celebrate the
National Day of the Cowboy. As one
of the masked desperados, I can tell
you, my outlaw partners were way,
way out numbered.
Events started on Tuesday with
Evil Roy, SASS #2883, giving his
shooting school for seventeen eager
cowboys and cowgirls who ranged
from novices to long time shooters.
For the past two years, the
Nor’easter has hosted another mem-
“Wild West Sweethearts” top sixteen female shooters
ber of the family to run the shooting
school. Apparently, getting married,
graduating college, and starting a
new life in the working world have
kept Holy Terror, SASS #15362,
busy. We all missed her, but from
what I’m told, her granddad did a
real fine job of standing in. No one
in the class appeared intimidated by
the man in black’s reputation, and
all were impressed by his knowledge, work ethic, and abilities after
two days of instruction.
Thursday brought side matches
and our normal warm-up called
“The Squall,” but unlike last year,
the weather was near perfect. No
lightning, no microburst storms, no
100 by 100 temperature/humidity
… just great shooting weather. To
set this year’s event apart from others, organizers decided to recognize
our different shooting categories.
Speed events were divided, as a
match would be; smokeless separate from blackpowder, one handed
shooting from two handed or gunfighter. Had every permutation
been shot in men’s, ladies, and
junior’s, the total certificates handed out would have been prodigious,
but doing it that way just seemed
right and fair.
We weren’t so lucky with
weather Thursday night into Friday
morning as shooters awoke or
arrived to rain from a genuine
nor’easter! Then, it rained some
more and for good measure, it
rained just a little bit more on top of
“The Showdown” top sixteen male shooters
December 2009
ish. The starting lines “Yum …
smallpox” and “You ain’t flogging
this bishop” only needed explanation if you hadn’t read the history
lesson accompanying each of the
stages. Thirty-nine participants ran
the table clean, including fast shooters like Jimmy Spurs, SASS #65014,
and not so fast shooters like Wild
Bill Blackerby, SASS #34989. All of
this attests to good stage design and
excellent stage instructions. There
were no procedural traps, and as far
Sheriff Rusty “just call me Moses” P.
Bucket,
SASS
#44721,
and
Windjammer, SASS #35984, the
newest member of the miraculous
group nicknamed the Soggy Bottom
Boys, the waters were parted, the
newly formed ponds drained, and
shooting commenced after a short,
two-hour delay. The amount of
work that went on continuously
that day and Saturday demonstrat-
The pirate flag of Match Director
Capt Morgan Rum flying high.
Darksider, SASS #80637,
with a “Bootie” award.
that. Match Director Capt. Morgan
Rum, SASS #6859, consulted
weather maps, our resident weather jinx, Dead Head, SASS #29768,
and even the aching bones of fellow
shooters, and then he made the difficult but necessary decision to
postpone the start of shooting for
the day. Though all of us got a late
start, the safety of folks who came
long or short distances outweighed
all other considerations.
With the heroic efforts of
ed how a few good and dedicated
people could bust their humps to
make a match go on, literally, rain
or shine. Just to round out the New
England weather experience for all
attending, Saturday was hot and
humid as it should be in late July.
Great credit must be given here
to the Toledo Kid, SASS #35150, for
creating stages with movement,
challenging but not confusing action
sequences, and fun from start to fin-
Winners
Top Overall &
Regional Champions
Man
Cartwheel (NY),
SASS #57342
Lady
Appaloosa Amy (CT),
SASS #63949
Top 16
Sweethearts Shoot-off
Stormy Shooter,
SASS #57333
Showdown Shoot-off
James Samuel Pike,
SASS #53331
Top Gun Shoot-off – Overall
James Samuel Pike
Categories
B-Western
Darksider,
SASS #80637
C Cowboy
Just Plain Larry,
SASS #13965
Cowboy
Cartwheel
Cowgirl
Sunshine Marcie,
SASS #64900
Duelist
Gospel Gunslinger,
SASS #39738
Frontiersman
Patchogue Mike,
SASS #8626
F Cartridge
Doc Perry,
SASS #42552
F C Duelist
Buffalo Brady,
SASS #24830
FCGunfighter
Dead Head,
SASS #29768
Gunfighter
Grazer, SASS #38845
49’er
Punch, SASS #4368
Wrangler
James Samuel Pike
Senior
Geronimo Jim,
SASS #21775
Sr Duelist
Lucky Lennie,
SASS #22244
S Senior
Evil Roy, SASS #2883
E Statesman
Geriatric Kid,
SASS #28872
2009 SASS New England
Regional Champions—
Appaloosa Amy and Cartwheel.
Congratulations!
Photo courtesy of
P T Litewell’s Heliographic Emporium
L B-Western
L Duelist
L F Cartridge
L 49’er
Cowgirl
L Wrangler
L Senior
L S Duelist
L S Senior
Grande Dame
Buckarette
Buckaroo
L Young Gun
Emma Goodcook,
SASS #49743
Nantucket Dawn,
SASS #15681
Eviline, SASS #80638
Annabelle Bransford,
SASS #11916
Sunshine Marcie,
SASS #64900
Appaloosa Amy
Calico Jan,
SASS #61842
Terrible Terrill,
SASS #32278
May Rein,
SASS #45274
Bonnie Dee,
SASS #28413
Lil Miss Sassy,
SASS #80579
Dan The Man,
SASS #80527
Snazzy McGee,
SASS #66689
Side Matches
Derringer (Speed)
Man
Pittsburg Mac,
SASS #20796
Lady
Ruby Blast,
SASS #74331
Derringer (Accuracy)
Man
Pittsburg Mac
Pocket Pistol (Speed)
Man
Doc Silverfinger,
SASS #3444
Lady
Annabelle Bransford
Junior
Jose Poco,
SASS #79764
Pocket Pistol (BP Speed)
Man
Doc McCoy,
SASS #8381
Pocket Pistol (Accuracy)
Man
Just Plain Larry
Speed Shotgun (Pump)
Man
Quaker Hill Bill,
SASS #61021
Lady
Sunshine Marcie
Speed Shotgun (Double)
Man
Lost Rider,
SASS #50731
Lady
Wild Sage,
SASS #40879
Speed Shotgun (BP Double)
Man
Gun E Bear,
SASS #5557
Speed Shotgun (Lever)
Man
Chuck Would,
SASS #53289
Lady
Ruby Rose Longshot,
SASS #67697
Speed Shotgun (BP Lever)
Man
Barley Pop Bill,
SASS #53019
Speed Shotgun (Hammered Double)
Man
Nutmeg Ryder,
SASS #74966
Speed Shotgun (BP Hammered Double)
Man
Critter T Longshot,
SASS #53188
Speed Rifle
Man
Cartwheel
Lady
Appaloosa Amy
Speed Rifle (BP)
Man
Doc McCoy
Speed Pistol
Man
Cartwheel
Lady
Sunshine Marcie
Speed Pistol (Gunfighter)
Man
Grazer
Lady
Hawley McCoy,
SASS #59558
Speed Pistol (BP Gunfighter)
Man
Barley Pop Bill
Speed Pistol (Duelist)
Man
The Virginia Kid,
SASS #35492
Lady
Nantucket Dawn
Top Gun Shoot-off winners—
Stormy Shooter and
James Samuel Pike.
Outstanding Shooting!
Photo courtesy of
P T Litewell’s Heliographic Emporium
Speed Pistol (BP Duelist)
Man
Critter T Longshot
Long Range Single Shot (200m)
Man
B. P. Gunns,
SASS #23578
Quigley Match Offhand (200m)
Man
Dead Head
Lady
Three Barrel Chris,
SASS #70513
Lever Rifle (Rifle Caliber – 150m)
Man
Blackhands,
SASS #70512
Lady
Dallas Rose,
SASS #52943
Lever Rifle (Pistol Caliber – 100m)
Man
B. P. Gunns
Lady
Dallas Rose
Long Range Pistol (50m)
Man
Pittsburg Mac
Lady
Montana Anna,
SASS #23579
Long Range Pistol (BP – 50m)
Man
Wild Phil Coyote,
SASS #20124
The Squall
Man
Geronimo Jim
Lady
Appaloosa Amy
Juniors
Dan The Man &
Snazzy McGee
Posse Shoot (Stage 0)
Posse 5
4-Person Team Shoot
Snazzy McGee,
James Samuel Pike,
Stormy Shooter,
Sheriff A B Dupree,
SASS #17690
Trap
Man
Dealing Justice,
SASS #62653
Lady
Lou Graham,
SASS #26112
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December 2009
tHe sass new england regional
as I can tell, the idea of “moving to
the gun” has won almost universal approval in the area.
Posses averaged twenty-four
shooters each, which allowed
work tasks to be spread between
A and B squads as well as
spelling RO’s so they wouldn’t be
over taxed and affect their shooting. Even with these numbers,
shooting on day two ended on
time with all who wanted or needed having the time to clean up for
an outstanding meal wrangled by
Ida Mae Holliday, SASS #48419.
Given the amount of barbeque on
hand, the caterer knew what he
was up against with hungry cow-
Lil Miss Sassy, SASS #80579,
shucking hulls ...
and a clean shoot!
boys, and no one left wanting
more. Some left with the need to
pop the top button on their pants
and give thanks for suspenders.
The Pelham Club has two primary shooting areas with five
main match stages set up on each
one. Posses spent one day in each
area shooting stages 1-5 or 6-10;
then switched the following day. It
just so happened that vendors’ row
was right on the path from one
area to another, so having people
stop and browse or buy was part of
the plan. Lots of folks could be
seen going to or from lunch with
new purchases. Many patronized
the Re-Shoot Shop filled with used
gear brought in by participants.
Run by Birdie Cage, SASS #32773,
Wylie Harp, SASS #21158, and
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984,
twenty percent of the proceeds
went to support the SASS scholarship fund. The generosity and
patronage of our shooters raised
shoot off. While these select few
steeled themselves for heads up
shooting, the team shoot was taking place along with the .22
gallery where you could win highly sought after prizes and a charity event. This last event got you
8 shots at a falling plate rack with
.22’s for a $5 donation. Every hit
added a raffle ticket to the bucket
Callous Clyde, SASS #4677,
drinking from “the Bucket,”
rumored to posses
magical shooting powers!
$1,400 for the fund.
In addition to great times
shooting, there were great times
had by all the folks who came out
and camped for either a short or
extended period of time. Walking
around what became camper village, accommodations ranged
from tents and lanterns to RVs
and custom rigs long enough to
qualify the owners as bus drivers.
In the evening a cowboy could
walk from camper to camper partaking in food or drink of all
kinds. Many of us have come to
regard this time as holding some
of the best memories from any
event. Sure, we come to shoot,
but there’s more to be done than
just that, as we want to socialize
with our friends, too. A piece of
advice, make sure you let Wild
Bill know you’re coming early for
next year ‘cause it’s going to get
even more crowded as this event
continues to grow!
Sixteen shooters from the
men and women’s ranks proved
themselves worthy for Sunday’s
Miss Delaney Belle, SASS #6860,
aka Eviline, SASS #80638,
beside scale version of the
Concord Coach by Amos-T,
SASS #4852. Yes, that’s correct,
she has TWO SASS aliases!
The best way to drain a swamp
is to use a (Sheriff)
Rusty P. Bucket, SASS #44721.
on a chance to win a donated .22
derringer.
Generous cowboys
added another $127 to the kitty in
vying for tickets.
The men’s shoot-off, “Showdown,” was won by James
Samuel Pike, SASS #53331, and
the ladies shoot-off, “Wild West
Sweet hearts,” was won by
Stormy Shooter, SASS #57333.
You could even get a ride in “the Surry with the fringe on top.”
Congratulations to the newly
crowned SASS New England
Regional champions, Cartwheel,
SASS #51342, and Appaloosa
Amy, SASS #63949, and all the
Category winners.
Special thanks to the Concord
Coach Society for sharing Concord
Coach #XIV with us and to Match
Sponsor Jimmy Spurs of Cowboy
Gun Works and all the presenting
sponsors along with all the hard
working GNE staff … all of which
made “The Great Nor’easter
2009” a great success.
Restored Concord Coach #XIV from the
Concord Coach Society out front of the clubhouse.
/
December 2009
2009 Great Nor’easter Main Match Sponsor,
Jimmy Spurs Cowboy Gun Works
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Cowboy Chronicle
December 2009
good guys posse’s
FIRST ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP SHOOT
By Jeweler Jim, SASS #50409
ockford, IL – As the flyer
said, “Help SASS help our
shooters get a edumacation!”
but, putting on our first charity shoot
proved to be an education for us as
well … what with the “global warming” (the coldest August on record for
decades), the fact that we’ve had our
range washed out three times this
year (Dry Gulch Ranch hasn’t been
real dry), and it rained for four days
leading up to the shoot! So, we ended
up not being able to play in the mud.
We rescheduled the shoot and managed to get it in two weeks later. Yes,
it was competing with the U.S. Open
in Sparta and other shoots, but we
wanted to get it in before it started to
snow, which would have been the
next thing to hit us.
R
Match Directors Pair-A-Dice (l)
and Jeweler Jim (second from r)
with Blind Bullseye winner,
Snidely Whiplash (r), and
second place finisher,
George Emmett (second from l).
Recent SASS Scholarship winners—
(l to r) Leadfoot Lizzie, Sicilian Kid,
and Pumpkin. Congratulations!
Pair-A-Dice, SASS Regulator
#5966 and RO-II Instructor, and I
decided this shoot was a necessary
thing to do as both our girls were
awarded SASS scholarships this year
(Pumpkin, SASS #45033 and RO-II,
and Leadfoot Lizzie, SASS #50411 and
RO-II). Previously my son had also
been granted a scholarship (Sicilian
Kid, SASS #50410 and RO-II). We,
along with many other deserving
youngsters, are beholden to SASS for
all the help given over the years.
So this “Yankee” and the
“Southern Gentleman” called a truce
to develop our first charity shoot. Our
landlord, Thunderbird Kid, SASS
Regulator #5266 and RO-II, said he
thought it was a great idea, and he
reminded us no funds collected
should be earmarked for him. 100%
of all monies collected would go to the
SASS Scholarship Fund. A good start
… and then our education started!
Seems most larger companies
that might donate to a charity like to
be contacted almost a year in advance
of the event. Well, we were already
committed and with only a couple of
months to get it done, I threw a
thread up on the “TG Wire” to get suggestions and comments on how to
proceed. From the Wire and with
what other board members suggested, it was decided a few side matches
would be our best money maker. We
settled on three side matches to
include a “Poker Shoot,” a “String
The Blind Bullseye match
was all luck … so the best prizes
were allocated to this event!
Winners
Over All
Man
Lady
Clean Match
Asleep At The Wheel,
SASS #47187
Legs, SASS #66921
Arizona Slick,
SASS #68062
Charles Goodnight,
SASS #7244
Chicago Outlaw Sider,
SASS #63575
Deuces Wild,
SASS #11492
Dog Earred Dan,
SASS #42099
Huckleberry,
SASS #43860
Shotgun Bandit,
SASS #23647
Shoot,” and a “Blind Bulls Eye.”
Blind Bulls Eye
Being one hundred percent luck,
we put our biggest prize there.
Snidely Whiplash won that one and
walked away with the gold nugget
that had the ten diamonds in it (fabricated by Ken Keehn of Keehn’s
Jewelry Algonquin, IL, and another
anonymous jeweler). Second prize
was the lady’s pin watch made in
Switzerland about the time of the
Civil War. George Emmett won that
beautiful time piece. Eight other
“coffee table books” on Winchester
Cartridges written, autographed,
and donated by Dog Eared Dan,
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First prize for the Blind Bullseye
match was the gold nugget with
10 embedded diamonds! Wow!
SASS #42099 were added to the mix
of prizes for all the side matches and
pre-match packet drawings.
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String Shoot
No one was able to cut the string,
but we had two shooters, Zip Zander
and George Emmett, who hit and
moved the strings twice each. We
gave them each a one hundred dollar
gift certificate from Eagle Grips.
www.eaglegrips.com
The Poker Shoot was “too easy!”
A real hand of Poker was required
to finally determine the winner!
Poker Shoot
We made it too easy and too close
because we had seven passes
through that match that managed to
get “Five Aces.” So, I dealt seven
hands of stud showdown to see who
got the prizes and ... Johnny Popper
won with a lousy pair of tens and
took
one
of
Dan’s
books.
Huckleberry took the “Comp” for the
steakhouse. Cornbread Lawman got
the “Comp” for the buffet. The
“Comps” were from Grand Victoria
Casino in Elgin, IL (that seemed to
be appropriate for a Poker Shoot.)
www.grandvictoria-elgin.com
There’s a better explanation of
the side matches in our August issue
of the “Gazette” that you can download at:
http://www.goodguysposse.org/forum
s/index.php?showtopic=6491
Without turning this into a non-stop
commercial, by the time you’re reading
this, you should be able to go to our SASS
Scholarship Thread and see a complete
listing of our sponsors.
www.goodguysposse.org/forums/index.ph
p?showforum=37
Most of our regular sponsors chipped
in with all kinds of goodies we added to
the shooters’ packets and the door prize
table. We were able to write a check for
$1,225 and pass that along with a few
other checks people threw into the contribution jug set out at the match.
Competition from other shoots in our
area the day of our shoot found us still having an attendance of forty-three registered
shooters. All had a good time, and we’re
already looking forward to next year.
Thanks to all our sponsors and
the shooters who turned out for our
first efforts! As Chicago sport’s fans
always say, “Wait till next year!”
A full listing of the scores can
also be found on our website under:
http://www.goodguysposse.org/forum
s/index.php?showtopic=6626
I guess you’ll need a computer
after you read this article!
The String Shoot was “too difficult!” No one could cut the strings …
so a couple of co-winners who actually HIT the strings were declared.
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Cowboy Chronicle
December 2009
City BanK new mexiCo’s
Billy the Kid’s Breakout
By Sgt. Shuster, SASS #60835
incoln County, New Mexico
– There are many legends and
a modicum of truth based
upon the exploits of William
McCarty, who later became William
Henry
McCarty-Antrim,
who
changed his name in Lincoln to
William H. Bonney, but was mostly
known as the Kid. And, Billy the
Kid was the subject of the Lincoln
County Regulators first annual
Cowboy Action Shooting™ extravaganza, Billy the Kid’s Breakout,
sponsored by City Bank New
Mexico. The event took place on the
weekend of August 7 – 9, 2009 with
Sgt. Shuster, SASS #60835, founder
of the Lincoln County Regulators,
serving as Trail Boss and Lincoln
County Regulator John Steele, SASS
#82159, serving as Match Director.
Timing and Scoring was supervised
by Lincoln County Regulator, Rowdy
L
Winners
Overll
Man
Lady
Buckarette
Categories
Buckarette
Cowboy
Wranger
49er
L Wrangler
L 49er
Senior
L Senior
S Senior
L S Senior
E Statesman
Duelist
S Duelist
S S Duelist
Gunfighter
F Cartridge
B-Western
Mica McGuire,
SASS #18526
Texas Tiger,
SASS #74829
Ricochet
Ricochet
Mica Mcguire
John Steel,
SASS #82159
Pecos Cahill,
SASS 75623
Texas Tiger
Annabelle Peacock,
SASS #50114
English Lynn,
SASS #74828
Rosie Rash,
SASS #42709
Tail N Kid,
SASS #43802
Cat Ballou,
SASS #55
Dry Creek,
SASS #2755
Fast Hammer,
SASS #60707
Hondo, SASS #21
El Viejo Cougero,
SASS #43225
Tex, SASS #4
Life-r, SASS #44051
Brushy Bill,
SASS #44261
SASS cowboys marched in the Lincoln County Days parade right down
Lincoln’s main street. It was difficult to determine who was most pleased …
the cowboys or the spectators!
Lane, SASS #82087.
The Regulators built props, cut
and welded targets, moved earth,
spread gravel, painted buildings,
gathered bits of Western ambience
L B-Western
C Cowboys
Hot Tamale,
SASS #78531
Doc Baker,
SASS #50032
Side Matches
Long Range Rifle
Pistol Caliber
Man
Life-r
Lady
Annabelle Peacock
Speed Pistol
Man
John Steel
Lady
Annabelle Peacock
Speed Rifle
Man
Mica McGuire
Lady
Texas Tiger
Fastest Regulator
Man
Life-r
Lady
Texas Tiger
Clean Match Rusty Fillins,
Rosy Rash,
Dry Creek,
SASS #2755,
Hondo,
John Steele,
Brushy Bill,
Tomahawk,
Ed Shortround,
SASS #78338
Best Dressed Costume Contest
Man
John Steel
Lady
Ginger Malloy,
SASS #821960
The Cowpoke Farthest From Home
Award
Life-r
(from Columbus, OH)
that ranged from elk antlers and
coyote hides to lariats and lanterns,
did historical research, found sponsors, and did a year’s worth of work
in a relatively few months.
Just as popular with the 92 competitors and their guests as the side
matches and the main match based
on the career of Billy the Kid were
the Friday evening get-acquainted
cocktail reception at the Sierra
Blanca Lodge, the Saturday evening
Cree Meadows Country Club Old
West Banquet, featuring historian
Drew Gomber, and the Sunday spent
in the historic village of Lincoln, site
of the Lincoln County War. “You just
can’t get more cowboy than all that,”
according to Regulators Special
Costume Contest Winners—
Match Director John Steel and wife,
Ginger Malloy.
Constable Frank Coe. And the 92
cowboys and cowgirls who came to
Ruidoso, New Mexico from as far as
the states of Washington, California,
Louisiana, and Ohio, agreed.
Shooters came from all over New
Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma,
and Colorado, as well.
The Lincoln County Regulators
first annual shoot began with side
matches written and honchoed by
John Steele. The side matches were
held at the Cowboy Action
Shooting™ Range and Old West
Town located at the Ruidoso Gun
Sunday morning Cowboy Church was well attended
in historic Lincoln’s Pageant Arena.
December 2009
Trail Boss of the Lincoln County
regulators, Sgt. Schuster,
handles the MC duties during
the Saturday evening banquet.
Lincoln County Historian and
TV personality, Drew Gomber,
retold the story of Billy the Kid
and the Lincoln County War
to a rapt audience. Some of the
historic sites can still be located
for those on a quest to “find Billy.”
The Wortley Hotel where Deputy Bob Olinger had his last meal. Billy shot
him dead with his own shotgun during his famous escape from Lncoln.
on Saturday morning as 60 competitors armed with six-guns, lever guns,
and scatter guns converged on the
Lincoln County Regulators Cowboy
Action Shooting™ Range and Old
West Town in Ruidoso Downs to
shoot six exceptional stages based on
the daring misadventures of Billy the
Kid. The competitors were divided
into three posses. After the Raising
of the Colors, accompanied by Lincoln
County Regulator Kiowa Mike on the
cavalry bugle, and the Pledge of
Allegiance, a Safety Briefing was
held by Frank Coe. Members of the
Rockin’ H 4-H Club shooting team got
ready to retrieve brass.
Depicting the first time young
Henry Antrim really got into trouble
on September 23, 1875 in Silver City,
Stage One, “Stolen Laundry” was
won by Fast Hammer, SASS #60707,
from Las Cruces, NM. The stage was
shot through wash hung out between
City Bank New Mexico and the
Celestial Laundry.
Mica McGuire triumphed while
shooting over the adobe wall in Stage
Two, “The Ambush of Sheriff Brady.”
This stage depicted the shooting of
Brady on April Fools Day, 1878, and
because Billy got winged and had to
drop a rifle, the shooter had to start
holding a rifle, but lay it down before
continuing with revolvers.
Stage Three, “Buckshot Roberts,”
portrayed the battle at Blazers Mill
where legend has Roberts shooting
up the Regulators from the outhouse. This stage, which started
with shooters sitting on the “facility,”
was bested by Mica McGuire.
City Bank New Mexico’s Billy the
Kid’s Breakout paused for a Brisket
and Beans lunch from the Allen
Family Caterers. Lincoln County
Regulator Scarlett Lane, SASS
#84914, supervised the field kitchen.
Stage Four, “Trapped,” saw Texas
Tiger attain the top spot.
Pat
Match Winners—
Texas Tiger, John Steel,
and Ricochet.
Congratulations!
Garrett’s posse had tracked the Kid to
remote Stinking Springs and, because
a shot horse blocked the gang’s exit,
competitors had to stage long guns on
a horse in front of the door.
Stage Five depicted the Kid’s
escape from the Lincoln County
Courthouse. Billy managed to get
the best of Deputy Bell and, when
Deputy Bob Ollinger heard the shot,
he ran across the street from lunch
at the Wortley Hotel to the
Courthouse. Waiting for him with
his own shotgun was Billy whose
famous greeting was, “Hello, Bob.”
Mica McGuire was the victor of “The
Breakout.” Competitors had to shoot
up the “target stairs” and through
Billy seemed a pleasant sort
as he gaily rode into Lincoln …
Lincoln recruits talent from the surrounding area for its Billy the Kid
Pageant. This troop recreates the Billy the Kid story, keeping
the Old West and it’s legends alive.
Club range in Ruidoso Downs.
After all that moving and shooting, the cowboys and cowgirls were
ready for some relaxation and socialization at the Friday evening getacquainted Cocktail Reception. The
party was held in the beautiful
lounge of The Lodge at Sierra Blanca
in Ruidoso, renowned for its breathtaking view of Sierra Blanca, the
sacred White Mountain of the
Mescalero Apaches.
Once the
canapés were devoured, lots of new
friends got together for dinner at
restaurants all over town.
The shooting started in earnest
The Tunstall store is all that remains of the McSween/Tunstall complex
consisting of their homes and the mercantile.
Both John Tunstall and Alex McSween are buried behind the Tunstall Store.
Mrs. McSween lead a long and adventurous life following Alex’s death and is buried
in nearby White Oaks.
the jailhouse window and door.
Stage Six, “Empty Chamber,”
depicted Billy’s run-in with Joe
Grant in a Fort Sumner saloon.
Grant brags that he’s going to kill
Billy, and Billy, unrecognized, asks to
see his gun. The Kid rigs the gun not
to fire, hands it back, and introduces
himself. John Steele came in first.
Shooters not only had to shoot down
the plates on the racks, they also had
to knock down the activators with
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their shotguns and possibly get a
bonus on the flyers. Two in a row!
And, that’s right, Pat Garrett
didn’t get Billy in the final stage!
The Lincoln County Regulators had
to leave something for next year, to
be sure.
Once all the shooting had died
down and the smoke cleared, everyone headed for the mountain village
of Ruidoso and Cree Meadows
County Club for the Old West
Banquet, featuring historian and
author, Drew Gomber. Gomber, an
expert on the Lincoln County War
among other Western lore, has
appeared on the History Channel
and Discovery Channel. His interesting talk separated most of the legend from the still fascinating facts
and was enjoyed by all. So was the
dinner, featuring carved-to-order
Chateaubriand and a whole passel of
fixin’s for the baked potatoes.
Lots of door prizes were given
away. The Deck of Cards Raffle netted Dry Creek a Remington Cowboy
Action Shooting™ double-barreled
shotgun, donated by Larry Wimbrow
of Firepower in Ruidoso. And speaking of luck, Dry Creek also won the
next Deck of Cards Raffle for a custom made hat valued at $300 from
Bronco Sue Custom Hats of Ruidoso,
a SASS affiliated merchant! He graciously donated the hat back to the
Lincoln County Regulators.
Sunday saw the Cowboy Action
Shooters in historic Lincoln for
Cowboy Church and a bit of that Old
Time Religion at the Pageant Arena.
Presided over by Sgt. Shuster, an
ordained Catholic deacon, the oldfashioned worship service featured
Praise and Worship music led by
Scarlett Lane, with a solo of Amazing
Grace by Miss Emily Vickers. All of
the hymns dated from the Old West
era. Frank Coe read the scripture,
and Lincoln County Regulator Miss
Kitty Kaffeine, SASS #82174, led the
intercessory prayers.
After church, the cowpokes in
Old West garb and packin’ iron participated in the Old Lincoln Days
Grand Parade. Those who couldn’t
walk all the way down that famous
street rode with Lincoln County
Sheriff Rick Virden in his horsedrawn wagon. The parade watchers
really enjoyed the SASS Old West
look, and the participants really
enjoyed walking the same street and
seeing the same buildings as those
legendary Lincoln County War characters. Lincoln is perhaps the bestpreserved town in all the West.
Everyone then spent the day
touring the historic Lincoln State
Monument’s buildings, including the
Tunstall store and the Lincoln
County Courthouse. Winding up the
day in Old Lincoln for the participants in City Bank New Mexico’s
Billy the Kid’s Breakout was the
annual pageant, “The Last Escape of
Billy the Kid.”
The community really got behind
the Lincoln County Regulators in
their quest to bring visitors to
Lincoln County, especially the
Valley
Chamber
of
Ruidoso
Commerce, Steve Talley, director of
Tourism for the Village of Ruidoso
and Lonnie R. Nunley, the Mayor of
the Village of Ruidoso.
The major sponsor for Billy the
Kid’s Breakout was City Bank New
Mexico, whose President, Lincoln
County Regulator Usurious Dave,
SASS #80436, worked as a Waddie
for the entire event.
Stage and Target sponsors were
Best-Corn Ranch, offering custom
guest ranch vacation packages and
Firepower Gun and Pawn of Ruidoso.
Foxworth-Galbraith provided all the
shooters prizes and Copy-Rite of
Roswell and Ruidoso printed the
Shooters Program and lots more.
Loading and unloading tables
were sponsored by Golden Yarn
Flooring, SASS Affiliated Merchant
Bronco Sue Custom Hats, Dylan
Midkiff, DDS (Rusty Fillins, SASS
#82379), C & S general commercial,
residential and remodel contractors
(John Steele), Sierra Contracting,
and Zia Natural Gas, all in the
Ruidoso area.
Other local sponsors included
Adam C. Rafkin, Attorney at Law,
Southwest
Securities
FSB,
BuyRuidoso.com, Wal-Mart, Pioneer
Bank, Ben Passmore, MD (Doc
Lecter, SASS #81609), Blended
Essentials (Ginger Malloy), and two
more SASS Affiliated Merchants:
Laced and Kona Cowboy Coffee
Company (Sgt. Shuster), and every
cowpokes best friend, Anonymous.
Shooters are already marking
their calendars for August 6-7-8,
2010 to join the Lincoln County
Regulators in their Second Annual
Billy the Kid’s Breakout … Same
History, New Stages … in historic
Lincoln County. Plan now to have a
real Cowboy Action Shooting™
adventure in the tall, cool pines of
Ruidoso, New Mexico. Who knows,
maybe in next year’s match Pat
Garrett will get Billy!
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tale oF tHe yellowstone valley
Buffalo Stampede
.
June 26-27, 2009
,
By Doc Weed, SASS #60818
Photos by Doc Weed, Lilly Blossom, SASS #26517
Statistics by Muggin’s Angel, SASS #19622
illings, MT – Billings is
named for Frederick H.
Billings, President of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. It is the
largest city in a 500-mile (805 km)
radius that includes Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota,
North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and
Alberta. It serves as a shopping and
accommodation center for area residents and highway travelers. It is a
great place to have a sport like
Cowboy Action Shooting™ since
there are at least four sporting goods
and gun shops in town, including
Sportsman’s Warehouse, Cabelas,
Shipton’s Big R, and Scheel’s.
Being close to Yellowstone
National Park, Pompey’s Pillar, and
the area where the Battle of the
Little Bighorn was fought is also an
attraction to competitors. Competitors enjoy our Friday-Saturday
Stampede format so they can tour
the local sites.
Friday dawned clear and bright
for a full afternoon of side matches.
Competition was tough. Eight main
B
Winners:
Overall
Man
Lady
Categories
49er
Buckaroo
Cowboy
Duelist
E Statesman
Frontiersman
F Cartridge
F C Duelist
Montana Prairie Dog,
SASS #46666
Buckskin Lily,
SASS #51707
A.E. Irons takes Angle for a ride …
match stages are shot on Saturday.
There is a mandatory lunch break
after the first four stages to give
shooters and spectators a break to
refuel and re-hydrate before returning to the fray. Since the club only
has four shooting bays, the leg-work
to shoot eight stages is not bad.
Each posse completes two stages
before moving on to the next range.
Do you have any idea how many
ways there are to negotiate the
same set of props and targets? Let’s
Gunfighter
L 49er
L Duelist
L Senior
Chama Bill,
SASS #36524
D Behind the Deuce,
SASS #82810
Yellowstone Nerd,
SASS #84195
Deadeye Doug,
SASS #8208
Clearwater Kid,
SASS #8886
Wyoming Drummer,
SASS #5797
Lilly Blossom,
SASS #26517
Rattlebury,
SASS #27366
Senior
Young Gun
Missouri River Kid,
SASS #38088
Curley Sue,
SASS #46667
Rawhide Riata,
SASS #18060
Missouri River Lo,
SASS #55271
Montana Prairie Dog
Big Sky Ranger,
SASS #84196
just say that no one got bored by the
scenarios and shooting sequences!
It was well known the workday
of the cowboy was dirty, hard, and
long with only the occasional day
off. Those rare respites were spent
doing everything from mending
their clothes to attending traveling
shows. This match gave us a taste
of many of the enjoyable activities a
cowboy did on a rare day off.
Stage 1 – ”Mending.” One of the
most important of the off duty jobs
was to mend their clothes and, in
this case, darn them “darn” socks.
Knowing how to use the darning
egg, the sewing basket, and the needle and thread saved many a bronc-
Match Winners—
Buckskin Lily and
Montana Prairie Dog.
Congratulations!
Mudhen Millie, SASS#36525,
gets ready to do some fly fishing.
Running Iron, SASS #28700,
baits up!
Side Matches
Pocket Pistol
Derringer
Speed Shotgun
Speed Rifle
Missouri River Kid
Clearwater Kid
Chama Bill
Jughead,
SASS #55756
.22 Rimfire
Joe Cross,
SASS #13848
Long Range Pistol Caliber
Chama Bill
Wyoming Drummer and his
grandson, D Behind the Deuce,
both are winners!
Ringer thinks that fish is not
dead yet!
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partake in the gentlemanly sport of
cow pasture pool. We were given a
chance to taste this sport. The start
of this stage was the attempted
sinking of a putt at 10 ft. using a
ball of string and an axe handle for
the club. I don’t think Tiger played
it this way!
Stage 6 – “Cowboy Baseball.”
This introduced the competitors to
the relaxing sport of baseball.
After church on Sunday, a game of
buster’s feet. But, don’t let your
pards catch you in the act!
Stage 2 – ”The Cowboy Theater.”
We all got a taste of the importance of
theater to the cowboy in the movie
“Tombstone.” The production of a
Greek Tragedy at Royal Lynn’s
Saloon was soon brought to a riproaring conclusion when a cowpoke
enters the saloon spouting Latin to
impress the ladies—it didn’t work!
Stage 3 – “Cowboy Fly Tying.”
The cowboys living in Montana had
the benefit of taking some time off to
do some fishing.
Montana has
numerous streams and lakes for fishing such as the Madison, the
Jefferson, the Yellowstone, and the
Missouri and lakes such as Flathead,
Canyon Ferry, and Yellowtail. They
learned how to tie flies out of rope
and the odds-and-ends of broken
tools and were very good at using
them. The competitors were afflicted
with the fine art of fly tying before
the fishing could begin. If the cowboys and cowgirls could not tie a convincing fly, then they may have had
to go hungry that night!
Stage 4 – “Cowboy Fishing.” It
was noticed some of the fishermen
threw their flies and poles away and
jumped into the stream to get their
fish with their hands. This was not as
successful as fishing in a pail of plain
well water, as that’s where the big
ones were hiding. Those lucky enough
to catch a fish whichever way they
preferred had a great supper of fresh
fish that was cooked by a campfire.
Stage 5 – “Cowboy Golf.” In
Montana there are many fine golf
courses, and cowboys were able to
If I hit it over the fence … do I win?
Baseball was in order to relax from
the rigors of the previous week.
But remember to take the guns
away before starting a “rhubarb!”
Stage 7 – “Cowboy Tennis.” If
there was time on this weekend,
some of the cowboys got into a game
of tennis. This would give them a
good workout, especially when
using a small spade for the racquet
and ball of yarn for the tennis ball!
Stage 8 – “Cowboy Laundry.”
Some of the cowhands saved their
personal chores for the end of their
day off and still had their laundry
to wash. All the equipment, such as
a washtub, Lorenzo’s Best Lye
Soap, and scrub board, was provided for the shooters that made it
through all stages.
With their clean clothes on, the
competitors felt refreshed at the end
of the shooting match and were ready
for the presentation of awards.
ode to tHe yellowstone
valley BuFFalo stampede
By Yellowstone Nerd, SASS #84159
‘Twas the dawn of the Stampede
And all on the range
Were the props and the tables
So neatly arranged.
Deadeye Doug got Speed Pistol, which
made his crew proud
Chama Bill’s Long Range Rifle spoke
hard and spoke loud.
Mudhen Millie watched Chama with
The signs had been hung by the highway
pride in her eye,
with care
Or maybe just smoke was makin’ her cry.
In hopes that the shooters soon would be
there.
The Nerd gave the prayer in the briefing
The cowboys were nestled all snug in
so grand:
their beds
“Don’t shoot over the berm, over thar be
While visions of trophies danced in their
state land!”
heads.
Then off to the shootin’ the posses they
rode.
Angel passed out the loot and the prizes
Aimin’ for prizes from our own Mother
we had,
Lode.
She went into town and she got us all
fed.
Doc Weed took our tintypes in his hat
so tall
Lilly Blossom was sayin’ to her dear
And a good time was had by the gang,
Backstrap Bill,
one and all.
“I hope there’ll be younguns,” and he
Prairie Dog brought his friends from the
answered, “There will.
town of Great Falls
“Calamity, Deuce, and that young lad,
And the campers was lined up like
Big Sky
horses in stalls.
“Will be shootin’ with us, be the water so
high.”
There was dear Lilly’s bloomers from out
of her drawers;
The sun was a-risin’ a clear great big sky They was hung in the way and they got
And Grizzly was wipin’ the sleep from
some new holes.
his eye.
Bugler’s shirt was all blue and his
When what to our wonderin’ eyes did
stripes was of gold
appear
To remind us of soldiers from days long
But a big ole fifth wheel with eight
ago.
10-point mule deer.
Black powder smoked and the counters
At the reins of the deer was a tall, silent
all choked
man
From the fumes of the frontier cartridge
And we knew it was surely our guv,
folks.
Brother Van.
(If you think this is easy, yer welcome to
try.
The shooters had come from near and
Cowboy couplets that rhyme ain’t like
afar
tyin’ a fly).
Buckskin Lilly, Noah, and Yakima R.
Clearwater Kid won the derringer call
We had Pack Rat and Ringer a blazin’
And Mo River Kid the pocket pistol haul.
away.
And Muggins was pingin’ the steel all
The speed shotgun prize went to
the day.
ole Chama Bill
Riata said somethin’ about Rawhide’s
While Joe Cross took Rimfire over the
shootin’
hill.
But no one could hear for her rootin’
Jughead got two prizes, Speed Rifle was
and tootin’.
one
And he shot the Long Pistol, that was
Rawhide won Lady Duelist and
t’other one.
Mo River Lo was the top
Lady Duelist of …Well, 30 or so.
Yote was knockin’ ‘em down with his
shotgun so merry
And Calamity Jane was dainty yet scary.
(She outshot the boys with her eye that
was true
But the Deuce and the Ranger shot
pretty good too.)
Prairie Dog slung the steel fast and hard
And he brung home some bacon;
the ace was his card.
The Mo River Kid had his eye on the
prize
And whatever he shot never did rise.
Huckleberry hounded the range but no
Squib
Was heard from her six-gun, whatever
she did.
We had Bonehead and Jughead and
Clearwater Kid;
Runnin’ Iron and Deadeye who Doug
what we did.
Bullets Bobbed on Bluegrass and Joe
Crossed the line;
And we ducked when we heard
ole Rick O’Shay’s whine.
Wyoming Drummer was top
Frontiersman
Rattlebury was Black Powder’s top
One-Hand Man.
Curly Sue was the hottest as the 49 lady
When we met at the end in the cool and
the shady.
Two Gun called all for all the winners to
meet
And the joint was all full, wasn’t hardly
a seat.
At the top of the heap, straightest
cowboy and filly,
Were the dude Prairie Dog and the gal
Buckskin Lily.
AE Irons exclaimed, as his horn he did
toot,
“Safe journey to all! A mighty good
shoot!”
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amBusH at Hat CreeK
By Jasper Agate, SASS #11697
urney, CA – BeeBad, SASS
#25307, and I have been hearing about this shoot for a few
years, and everyone who has attended said it was a beautiful place and a
good shoot to boot! We are home
after seven years on the road and
could schedule in this shoot, and we
are sure glad we did!
The drive up was beautiful, as
we have never been up to that area
of Northern CA. The range was set
back into the woods with camping
either on the flats below the range,
with an outstanding view, or up in
the woods at the top of the hill. We
chose the later. We both like smaller
annual matches, and with 83 shooters it was the perfect size for us. It
seems you can get to know most
everyone at a more intimate match.
We arrived on Thursday afternoon and had a great Mexican
potluck with a group of our friends
that evening. The Management was
very friendly and seemed to make it
to all the different camps to say
hello. Friday was a side match day
B
Winners
49er
C Cowboy
Cowgirl
Duelist
E Statesman
F Cartridge
Frontiersman
Gunfighter
Junior
L 49er
L F Cartridge
L Senior
L Wrangler
Senior
S Duelist
S Senior
Wrangler
Royal Flush,
SASS #78333
Gus Ashcroft,
SASS #27341
Camp Hag,
SASS #84031
Rico Kid,
SASS #13942
De Sabla Don,
SASS #76121
Smokin Gator,
SASS #29736
Tumbleweed Ed,
SASS # 65484
Speedy McDraw,
SASS #60016
Hammerin Hank,
SASS #79046
Redwood Rose,
SASS #60017
Jessie Lyn,
SASS #7989
Marsha Dillon,
SASS #9634
Ima Goner,
SASS #77027
Rambling Dave,
SASS #21864
Kid Kneestone,
SASS #14851
Whiskey Rivers,
SASS #15783
Simpson Shootist,
SASS #71732
with a wonderful long range seminar
put on by Red Blaze, SASS #5313,
and Old Curly, SASS #3351. BeeBad
took the class and ended up beating
me at long range. She learned a lot
from those boys! They also offered
Cowboy silhouette, a wonderful
Shotgun frenzy, I’ll tell you more
about that later, a .22 match, and all
the other side matches you would
expect to find. I shot cowboy silhouette before the seminar and after a
break for lunch headed to long
range. I spent the rest of my day at
long range and didn’t even get my
side match guns dirty!
After a quick clean up, it was off
to the potluck sponsored by the home
club, the Shasta Regulators. We
spent the rest of the evening visiting
with old friends, including the
Possum Holler folks from The Ukiah
Gun Club. They are a wonderful
group of cowboys that make you feel
right at home in their camp, just
watch out for their Apple Pie! I’m
not talking about the kind served
with ice cream!!!
The following day was an early
start with six stages to shoot before
lunch. We knew almost everyone on
our posse, and it was a great posse to
shoot on! We hung out with our old
friends from the Mad River Rangers
and met new ones, such as Diamond
Eye Dottie, SASS #75194, and her
husband, Dogtown Larry, SASS
#64888. De Sabla Don, SASS #76121,
and Smitty Wesson, SASS #9756,
were our two distinguished Elder
Statesmen who out-shot most of the
posse, and Marsha Dillon, SASS
#9634, was the top over all woman.
We also had Sutter Lawman, SASS
#24333 on our posse, and it’s always a
pleasure to shoot with him.
BeeBad was the first to shoot for
the day, and the posse leaders, Lefty
Hangfire, SASS #32069, and Lefty
Malone, SASS #37703, weren’t quite
ready for her full house 12 ga blackpowder loads! The stages were
inventive and had lots of different
sweeps. The targets might be a little
small for some, but everyone had to
shoot at the same steel! After the
first six stages, we ate a late lunch
and most headed back to camp to get
ready for the evening’s festivities.
I hung around for a run at the
Shotgun Frenzy, and I’m sure glad I
did!! It was a minimum of 29 tar-
gets, ranging from potatoes
hung on rebar to a Texas star,
and all the poppers loaded
with full coke can and charcoal
briquettes you could want to
shoot. I was fortunate enough
to shoot first that afternoon so
I could get back to camp and
clean our guns before dinner.
The weather gods weren’t
with us that evening, and it
started to rain just as we
arrived at the banquet to listen
to the band. The rain put a
damper on the outside affair,
affecting not only the evening’s
dinner and the side match
awards, but the musicians ran
for cover with their equipment.
A few of us brave souls
stuck around for the Night
Plainsman Match; that’s right,
I said a Night Plainsman
match!! What a hoot!! Four of
us intrepid souls loaded our
cap and ball revolvers, grabbed
up our single shot rifles and
shotguns, and shot late into the
night! Stranger, SASS #16621, and
the guys that put on that part of the
match deserve a big thanks from us
Plainsmen! They worked really hard
to ensure we had a great time with
big rifle targets way the heck out
there. At one point I heard one of the
helpers say if I blew out another
lamp, they were going to make me
pay for it. I don’t quite understand
what the problem was. I was shooting a cute little roller in .50-70 and a
10 ga. ‘87. Doesn’t everyone play the
.
game with big bore guns?
So, to recap my Saturday, I shot
from 8:30 in the morning until 10:30
at night, and I had a ball! The next
morning came way early after my
late night with four more stages to
shoot before the team-shoot and the
awards. That day’s stages were more
of the same with us ending on their
infamous shotgun stage, and it was a
good one! We started with rifle targets at the end of the berm followed
by two snakes (pieces of some 1 1/4"
hose) that needed to be shot across a
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line. The four poppers loaded with
soda cans were next as you moved
down range towards the revolver targets. You ended the stage with the
rifle targets used as revolver targets.
The team shoot was fun with five
person teams and 50 knockdown silhouette targets shot with revolvers
and any misses made up with shotguns before engaging a post that had
to be cut down with rifles. It was a
very good team shoot!!!!
Despite the rain on Saturday and
a few minor glitches that accompany
a small match, it was a blast. The
Shasta Regulators made us feel right
at home even though it was our first
time at their range. We will definitely be putting this one on the calendar
for next year. The setting was beautiful, and the drive was breathtaking.
Maybe I can redeem myself next year
and beat my dear wife at long range
… or maybe not!
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. BunKHouse Bidness .
A Spotlight on SASS Clubs
Around the Country (ies)
Whooper Crane,
SASS #52745
Mug shot by Deadeye Al
What’s Ahead for
Bunkhouse Bidness?
How about an
International Flair?
tarting in January, Bunkhouse
Bidness will take on an international flair, as our Canadian sidekick, Bad Penny, SASS #1453, takes
S
over the reins of this popular column for The Cowboy Chronicle.
Bad Penny has a writer’s background, so he’ll probably dot all his
I’s and cross all his T’s as he creates
his articles. I’m aware he’ll be featuring one of our top SASS Clubs
north of the border in January, so
we should gain some fresh insight
into how our northern neighbors set
up and operate their clubs so well.
I hope he’ll also do some articles
on our European, Aussie, and Kiwi
pards as well. And … there are still
hundreds of interesting SASS Clubs
here in the States we haven’t even
touched yet. It’s a big assignment!
Like I say, Bad Penny’s a jour-
nalist, so we can rest assured he’ll
find out everything that makes our
many SASS Clubs tick.
Welcome aboard, Bad Penny.
We’re looking forward to your
Bunkhouse Bidness articles.
Am I departing the scene? Not
hardly!
I’ll continue to put together my
Sidekicks & Heavies column and my
Wild West Wheels column as before.
And, to stir things up a little more
… the Missus and I will be putting
together a new column called One
Pot Chuck, which will offer some
really tasty meals like the ones
chuckwagon Cookies whipped up
out on the trail.
We’ll design ‘em for campfire
cooking in one pot (usually a cast
iron Dutch oven).
But, don’t
despair if you don’t cook with cast
iron when you camp … these
recipes convert easily to more-contemporary cookware as well. We
hope you’ll want to try your hand
with cast iron though … It’s a hoot!
Until then, thanks for all your
kind words about Bunkhouse
Bidness these past 18 months. Bad
Penny’s articles should keep things
moving right along from now on. I
know you’ll enjoy them.
Photo:
Whooper Crane by Deadeye Al
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SASS AFFILIATED CLuBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDuLE
Club Name
Sched.
1st Sat & 3rd Sun
alaska 49er’s
2nd Sat & last Sun
Golden heart Shootist Society
3rd Sun
Juneau Gold Miners posse
North alabama regulators
1st Sun
2nd Sun
alabama rangers
3rd Sat
Vulcan long rifles
3rd Sun
Gallant Gunfighters
old york Shootists
4th Sun
5th Sat
russell County regulators
1st Wkend
Mountain Valley Vigilantes
2nd & 5th Sat
outlaw Camp
Judge parker’s Marshals
2nd Sat
White river Gang
2nd Sat
2nd Sat & 4th Sun
arkansas lead Slingers
3rd Sat
South fork river regulators
true Grit SaSS
4th Sun
White Mountain old West Shootists 1st & 3rd Sat
1st Sat
Cochise Gunfighters
rio Salado Cowboy action
Shooting Society
1st Sat
Cowtown Cowboy Shooters, llC 1st Sun & 3rd Sat
2nd & 4th Sun
Colorado river regulators
(Sept-Jun)
arizona Cowboy Shooters
association, inc
2nd Sat
2nd Sat
tombstone Ghost rider outlaws
2nd Sun
yrl-high Country Cowboys
los Vaqueros
3rd Sat
tonto rim Marauders
3rd Sun
3rd Sun & 5th Sun
altar Valley pistoleros
3rd Sun & 5th Sun
Mohave Marshalls
arizona yavapai rangers
4th Sat
dusty Bunch old Western Shooters 4th Sat
4th Sat
tombstone Buscaderos
4th Sun
Colorado river Shootists
Sunnyvale regulators
1st & 3rd Mon
West End outlaws
1st & 3rd Sat
1st & 3rd Sun
Silver queen Mine regulators
1st Sat
deadwood drifters
Escondido Bandidos
1st Sat
lassen regulators
1st Sat
1st Sat
the outlaws
1st Sat & 4th Sun
two rivers posse
hole in the Wall Gang
1st Sun
Mother lode Shootist Society
1st Sun
river City regulators
1st Sun
1st Wknd
5 dogs Creek
Cajon Cowboys
2nd & 4th Sat
Chorro Valley regulators
2nd & 5th Sun
Buffalo runners
2nd Sat
2nd Sat
California rangers
2nd Sat
dulzura desperados
Guns in the Sun
2nd Sat
Shasta regulators of hat Creek
2nd Sat
Brimstone pistoleros
2nd Sun
double r Bar regulators
2nd Sun
high Sierra drifters
2nd Sun
richmond roughriders
2nd Sun
the over the hill Gang
2nd Sun
Bridgeport Vigilantes
3rd Sat
Burro Canyon Gunslingers
3rd Sat
Nevada City peacemakers
3rd Sat
North County Shootist assoc.
3rd Sat
plunge Creek Cowboys
3rd Sat
robbers roost Vigilantes
3rd Sat
Shasta regulators
3rd Sat
high desert Cowboys
3rd Sun
Kings river regulators
3rd Sun
Murieta posse
3rd Sun
panorama Sportsman’s Club
3rd Sun
South Coast rangers perry adams Cowboy Match
3rd Sun
ukiah Gun Club
3rd Sun
California Shady ladies
4th Sat
Coyote Valley Sharp Shooters
4th Sat
hawkinsville Claim Jumpers
4th Sat
Mad river rangers
4th Sat
pozo river Vigilance Committee 4th Sat
faultline Shootist Society
4th Sun
the Cowboys
4th Sun
the range
4th Sun
Sloughhouse irregulators
5th Sat & Sun
Colorado Cowboys
1st Sat
Colorado Shaketails
1st Sun
San Juan rangers
1st Sun
Windygap regulators
1st Wknd
Ben lomond high plains drifters 2nd Sun
Castle peak Wildshots
2nd Sun
four Corners rifle and pistol Club 2nd Sun
Montrose Marshals
2nd Sun
pawnee Station
3rd Sat
rockvale Bunch
3rd Sat
four Corners Gunslingers
3rd Sun
thunder Mountain Shootists
3rd Wknd
Northwest Colorado rangers
4th Sat
pawnee Sportsmens Center
4th Sat
Black Canyon Ghost riders
4th Sun
Sand Creek raiders
4th Sun
ledyard Sidewinders
1st Sat
Ct Valley Bushwackers
2nd Sun
padens posse
3rd Sun
Gold Coast Gunslingers
1st Sat
howey in the hills Cowboys
1st Sat
Ghost town Gunslingers
1st Sun
hernando County regulators
1st Sun
the hatbill Gang
1st Sun
fort White Cowboy Cavalry
2nd Sat
Contact
Phone
City
State
Club Name
tripod
Col. reed
five Card tanna
Six String
rC Moon
havana Jim
Buck d. law
derringer di
Will Killigan
Christmas Kid
ozark outlaw
reno Sparks
loco toro
dirty dan paladin
Kid thorn
Sister Sundance
Mustang lady Sue
i.B. Good
907-373-0140
907-488-3903
907-789-7498
256-582-3621
205-410-5707
205-822-1799
256-504-4366
205-647-6925
706-568-0869
501-625-3554
501-362-2963
918-647-9704
870-435-2768
479-633-2107
870-488-5447
479-970-7042
928-243-3457
520-366-5401
Birchwood
Chatanika
Juneau
Woodville
Brierfield
hoover
Birmingham
hoover
phenix City
hot Springs
heber Springs
fort Smith
Mountain home
Garfield
Salem
Belleville
Snowflake
Sierra Vista
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Barbwire
480-357-1025
480-488-3064
Mesa
phoenix
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Crowheart
928-505-2200
lake havasu
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Big tim
Wily yankee
Justice B. dunn
august West
Silverado Cid
Mean raylean
Mizkiz
Whisperin Meadows
Squibber
diamond pak
Cluelass
Shaniko Jack
rob Banks
t. E. Kidd
lusty lil
devil Jack
Chief Wages
terrell Sackett
dragon
frito Bandito
Sioux City Kid
Baldy Green
Mad dog draper
Bojack
Marshal Chance
Nyack Jack
paniolo lady
hashknife Willie
Johnny 2moons
Cayenne pepper
rowdy yates
Kentucky Gal
peaceful
Buffy
Kooskia Kid
Bee Blest
don trader
Marlin Schofield
Graybeard
horace falcon
Nasty Newt
Modoc
doc Silverhawks
Slick rock rooster
Black Jack traven
desperado
602-757-3728
520-400-5598
928-636-4911
520-544-7888
928-595-1230
520-235-0394
928-897-2705
928-567-9227
520-568-2852
520-780-4852
928-726-7727
650-464-3764
714-206-6893
562-598-7771
323-353-3898
760-741-3229
530-257-3402
916-363-1648
209-836-4042
661-406-6001
209-795-4175
707-425-8569
805-497-2857
760-956-8852
805-460-9082
916-812-0434
916-483-9198
619-271-1481
760-346-0972
530-275-3158
714-532-2922
760-949-9111
209-293-4456
650-994-9412
818-566-7900
760-932-1139
714-827-7360
530-265-9213
760-727-9160
951-845-4827
760-375-7618
530-365-1839
661-948-2543
559-299-8669
530-677-0368
818-341-7255
phoenix
tombstone
prescott
tucson
payson
tucson
Kingman
Camp Verde
Casa Grande
tombstone
yuma
Cupertino
lytle Creek
azusa
piru
Escondido
Susanville
Sacramento
Manteca
piru
Jamestown
davis
Bakersfield
devore
San luis obispo
rail road flat
Sacramento
San diego
palm Springs
Burney
lucerne Valley
lucerne Valley
railroad flat
richmond
Sylmar
Bridgeport
Meyers Canyon
Nevada City
pala
highland
ridgecrest
redding
acton
Clovis
rancho Murieta
Sylmar
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Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Swifty Schofield
Will Bonner
lady Gambler
Wif
lethal les l’amour
Kid Kneestone
dirty Sally
querida
Captain Jake
Grass V.federally
Badlands Bud
El Gato Gordo
Midnite Slim
Kodiak Kid
piedra Kidd
Sand river Slim
old Squinteye
Capt. W. K. Kelso
Big hat
red river Wrangler
Ghostmaker
ruff Cobb
pinto Being
Sagebrush Burns
Governor General
double Bit
Sweet Water Bill
yosemite Gene
Cayuse
hazel pepper
l. topay
lady robin
Copenhagen
Shady Brady
Santa fe river Stan
Kid hawkins
805-886-3360
707-462-1466
916-447-2040
408-448-3256
530-926-4538
707-445-1981
805-438-4817
831-635-9147
714-536-2635
530-273-4440
530-677-0368
719-683-6713
719-635-9431
970-252-1841
970-565-9228
303-771-1920
970-524-9348
970-565-3840
970-249-7701
970-225-0545
719-275-5265
970-247-4386
970-464-7118
970-824-8407
970-656-3851
970-874-8745
303-366-8827
860-536-0887
203-457-1031
302-422-6534
305-233-5756
352-429-2587
904-808-8559
352-686-1055
386-423-2495
386-454-2067
Santa Barbara
ukiah
Sloughhouse
San Jose
yreka
Eureka/arcata
Santa Margarita
Gonzales
Norco
Grass Valley
Sloughhouse
lake George
ramah
Montrose
Cortez
ramah
Gypsum
Cortez
Montrose
Wellington
rockvale
durango
Grand Junction
Craig
Briggsdale
hotchkiss
Byers
ledyard
East Granby
Seaford
fort lauderdale
howey in the hills
St. augustine
Brooksville
titusville
fort White
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Ca
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Co
Ct
Ct
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2nd Sat & 4th Sun Buffalo Brady
okeechobee Marshals
2nd Sun
panhandle B. Kid
panhandle Cowboys
2nd Sun
Judge Jd Justice
tater hill Gunfighters
Weewahootee Vigilance Committee 2nd Sun
Weewahootee
3rd Sat
halfbreed don
lake County pistoleros
3rd Sat
Jed
Southwest florida Gunslingers
3rd Sun
Cracker Jake
Miakka Misfits
Cowford regulators
4th Sat
J Bird Blue
4th Sat
turkey Creek red
indian river regulators
4th Sat
tac hammer
panhandle Cattle Company
4th Sun
dave Smith
doodle hill regulators
five County regulators
4th Sun
dead Shot Scott
antelope Junction rangers
fridays
Mayeye rider
last Sat
hungry Bear
Withlacoochee renegades, the
1st Sat
Josey Buckhorn
american old West Cowboys
river Bend rough riders
1st Sat
done Gone
Valdosta Vigilance Committee
1st Sat
Big Boyd
1st Sun
Wishbone hooper
lonesome Valley regulators
2nd Sat
Easy rider
doc holliday’s immortals
pale riders
2nd Sat
Will Killigan
Mule Camp Cowboys
3rd Sat
Marshal dan Cutter
3rd Sat
trail Bones
tennessee Mountain Marauders
4th Sat
Joe West
Cherokee Cowboys
Maui Marshals
1st & 3rd Sat
Bad Burt
Single action Shootist of hawaii 4th Sun
Brandebuck
1st Sat (Mar-Nov) ranger Mathias fischels
turkeyfoot Cowboys
4th Sat (Mar-oct)
Cap horn
Zen Shootists
Gunslingers of flaming
heart ranch
1st Sat
Jughandle Jack
idaho packer
Southeast idaho practical Shooters 1st Sat
1st Sat & 4th Sun
Mud Marine
Border Maurauders
Squaw Butte regulators
1st Sun & 2nd Sat
acequia Kidd
El Buscaderos
2nd & 4th Sun
oddman
2nd Sat
Silverado Belle
Northwest Shadow riders
2nd Sat
Black Jack Kid
Southern idaho rangers
oregon trail rough riders
2nd Sun & 3rd Sat John Bear
hell’s Canyon Ghost riders
3rd Sat
J.p. Sloe
3rd Sat
idaho packer
twin Butte Bunch
3rd Sun
Bob Wyer
panhandle regulators
Snake river Western
Shooting Society
4th Sat
Missy Mable
1st & 4th Sun
dapper dan porter
Shady Creek Shootists
1st Sat
the inspector
rangeless riders
the lakewood Marshal’s
1st Sat
pine ridge Jack
Boneyard Creek regulators
1st Sun
Wild pike
1st Sun
Grasshopper BCi
Kishwaukee Valley regulators
2nd Sat
randolph raider
Kaskaskia Cowboys
2nd Sat
fossil Creeek Bob
the free Grazers
tri County Cowboys
2nd Sat
Sierra hombre
illinois river City regulators
2nd Sun
uncle outlaw
2nd Sun
lead poison lar
Vermilion river long riders
Nason Mining Company regulators 3rd & 5th Sat
diggins dave
litchfield Sportsman’s Club
3rd Sat
ross haney
Macoupin County regulators
3rd Sat
one Good Eye
Mclean County peacemakers
3rd Sat
Marshall rd
fort Beggs defenders
3rd Sun
torandado
illowa irregulars
3rd Sun (apr-oct)
Shamrock Sis
Marion County renegades
4th Sat
Shell Stuffer
Good Guys posse
4th Sun
dangerous denny
long Nine Cowboys, inc.
4th Sun
postman
Salt river renegades
as Sched
lily Mae
Cutter’s raiders
1st Sat
Midnite desperado
daleville desperados
2nd & 4th Sat
flat Water Bob
Schuster’s rangers
2nd Sun (apr-Nov) Coal Car Kid
pleasant Valley renegades
2nd Wknd
Nomore Slim
high Ground regulators
3rd & 5th Sat
Blackjack Max
Circle r Cowboys
3rd Sat
Mustang Bill
Stark County desert
3rd Sat
Whip Mccord
thunder Valley
3rd Sat
redneck rebel
Wolff’s rowdy rangers
3rd Sat
Justice d. Spencer
Wabash rangers
4th Sat
henry remington
red Brush raiders
4th Sat
doc Goodluck
deer Creek regulators
4th Sun
doc Molar
Wildwood Wranglers
4th Sun
(No Shoot in dec- feb) VoodooMaN
indiana Black powder Guild
as Sched
C. C. top
Butterfield Gulch Gang
1st Sun
polecat ron
powder Creek Cowboys
2nd & 4th Sat
& 4th Wed
Shawnee Shamus
Mill Brook Wranglers
2nd Sun
Grandpa Buckten Millbrook
free State rangers
3rd & 5th Sun
Buffalo phil
Sand hill regulators
3rd Sat
Goat roper
Capital City Cowboys
4th Sun
Newton
Chisholm trail antique Gun
association
4th Sun
y. S. hardey
Kentucky regulators
1st Sat
Kentucky dover
hooten old town regulators
1st Sat (Mar - dec) Bullfork Shotgun red
Knob Creek Gunfighters Guild
1st Sun
Cumberland drifter
Green river Gunslingers
2nd Sat
yak
lonesome pine pistoleros
2nd Sun
isom Kid
ohio river rangers
3rd Sat
George rogers
levisa fork lead Slingers
4 th Sun
Escopeta Jake
fox Bend peacemakers
4th Sun
tocala Sam
Border Vigilantes
1st Sat
Cooper york
up the Creek Gang
2nd & 4th Sat
hardly able
Bayou Bounty hunters
2nd Sat
Soiled dove
Cajun Cowboy Shooters Society
2nd Sun
durango dan
Cypress Creek Cowboys
2nd Wknd
Mav dutchman
Grand Ecore Vigilantes
3rd Sat
ouachita Kid
Guns of Sabine pass
3rd Sat
hobbel-a-long
deadwood Marshals
4th Sat
Barkeeps
Jackson hole regulators
4th Sat
Slick McClade
danvers desperados
as Sched
Cyrus Cy Klopps
harvard Ghost riders
as Sched
yosemite Kid
Shawsheen river rangers
as Sched
yukon Willie
Gunnysackers
Sat
Nantucket dawn
Eas’dern Shore renegades
1st Sat
Slash Eight
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Sched.
Contact
Phone
City
State
772-344-6119
850-432-1968
941-743-4043
407-857-1107
352-669-1700
239-596-2351
941-748-0741
904-778-4184
321-728-7928
850-785-6535
813-645-3828
239-261-2892
727-736-3977
850-929-2406
423-236-5281
770-361-6966
229-244-3161
478-922-9384
770-954-9696
706-568-0869
770-786-9235
423-842-6116
706-864-9019
808-875-9085
808-351-9260
319-234-1550
515-999-2089
indiantown
pensacola
arcadia
orlando
tavares
punta Gorda
Myakka City
Jacksonville
palm Bay
port St. Joe
ruskin
punta Gorda
pineallas park
pinetta
flintstone
dawsonville
Valdosta
Warner robins
Griffin
Mauk
Covington
ringgold
Gainesville
Maui
honolulu
Elk run heights
Nevada
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fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
fl
Ga
Ga
Ga
Ga
Ga
Ga
Ga
Ga
Ga
hi
hi
ia
ia
208-634-3121
208-589-5941
208-597-6191
208-365-4551
208-437-0496
208-743-5765
208-238-8235
208-562-1914
208-798-0826
208-589-5941
509-924-0863
Council
idaho falls
Bonners ferry
Emmett
Spirit lake
lewiston
pocatello
Boise
Moscow
rexburg
plummer
id
id
id
id
id
id
id
id
id
id
id
208-731-6387
309-734-2324
618-345-5048
618-838-9410
217-356-5136
815-758-1946
618-443-2983
618-238-4222
815-967-6333
309-360-6152
815-875-3674
618-438-6401
618-667-9819
618-585-3956
309-379-4331
815-302-8305
309-798-2635
618-266-9813
815-245-7264
217-415-1118
217-985-4915
574-893-7214
765-285-1210
219-759-3498
812-839-3052
765-832-3324
219-279-2781
219-942-5859
812-755-4237
574-264-2012
217-267-2820
812-721-1188
765-948-3844
Jerome
little york
highland
Cisne
Newman
Sycamore
Sparta
Effingham
hazelhurst
East peoria
leonore
Benton
litchfield
Bunker hill
Bloomington
plainfield
Milan
Sandoval
rockford
loami
Barry
Warsaw
daleville
Chesterton
Canaan
putnamville
Brooksten
Knox
Campbellsburg
Bristol
Cayuga
Newburgh
Jonesboro
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219-872-2721
574-354-7186
785-827-8149
Michigan City
Etna Green
Chapman
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KS
913-236-8812
785-421-2537
913-898-4911
620-345-3151
785-925-0281
lenexa
hill City
parker
hutchinson
topeka
KS
KS
KS
KS
KS
620-367-2636
270-658-3247
606-782-0239
502-548-3860
270-792-9001
606-633-4465
270-554-1501
606-631-4613
859-552-9000
504-722-8988
337-474-5058
985-796-9698
225-752-2288
318-396-6320
318-932-6637
337-463-5690
225-715-8711
318-395-2224
781-667-2857
781-373-2411
978-663-3342
781-749-6951
410-648-6829
Wichita
Boaz
Mckee
West point
Bowling Green
Jeremiah
paducah
pikeville
Wilmore
Sorrento
lake Charles
amite
Baton rouge
downsville
Natchitoches
hineston
Sorrento
quitman
Middleton
harvard
Bedford
Scituate
Sudlersville
KS
Ky
Ky
Ky
Ky
Ky
Ky
Ky
Ky
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Ma
Ma
Ma
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December 2009
SASS AFFILIATED CLuBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDuLE (Cont.)
Club Name
Sched.
Contact
Phone
thurmont rangers
Monocacy irregulars
damascus Wildlife rangers
Beaver Creek desperados
Big pine Bounty hunters
Blue hill regulators
Capitol City Vigilance Committee
hurricane Valley rangers
rockford regulators
river Bend rangers
Butcher Butte Bunch
double Barrel Gang
Chippewa regulators
Sucker Creek Saddle & Gun Club
hidden Valley Cowboys
Eagleville Cowboys
Johnson Creek regulators
rocky river regulators
huron river raiders
Saginaw field & Stream Club
West Walker rangers
lapeer County Sportsmans
Club Wranglers
Cedar Valley Vigilantes
Crow river rangers
Granite City Gunslingers
lookout Mountain Gunsmoke
Society
East Grand forks rod & Gun Club
ike’s Clantons
the ozark posse
rocky Branch rangers
West plaines Waddies
Moniteau Creek river raiders
Central ozarks Western Shooters
Gateway Shootist Society
Southern Missouri rangers
Natchez Six Gunners
Mississippi peacemakers
Mississippi river rangers
honorable road agents Shooting
Society
Sun river rangers Shooting Society
Gallatin Valley regulators
rocky Mountain rangers
Bigfork Buscaderos
lincoln County regulators
Montana territory peacemakers
yellowstone regulators
flatwood’s Cowboys
old hickory regulators
old North State posse
Walnut Grove rangers
Buccaneer range regulators
Carolina Cattlemen’s Shooting
and Social Society
high Country Cowboys
Carolina Single action Shooting
Society
Bostic Vigilantes
Cross Creek Cowboys
Gunpowder Creek regulators
piedmont Gunslingers
iredell regulators
Badlands Bandits (the)
dakota rough riders
trestle Valley rangers
Sheyenne Valley peacekeepers
platte Valley Gunslingers
alliance Cowboy Club
Eastern Nebraska Gun Club
flat Water Shootists of the
Grand island rifle Club
the dalton Gang Shooting Club,
of Nh llC
Merrimack Valley Marauders
pemi Valley peacemakers
White Mountain regulators
thumbusters
Jackson hole Gang
Magdalena trail drivers
rio rancho regulators
otero practical Shooting
association
Buffalo range riders
Chisum Cowboy Gun Club
Bighorn Vigilantes
lincoln County regulators
high desert drifters
rio Grande renegades
1st Sun
Cody Conagher
304-258-1419
3rd tues
Church Key
304-229-8266
4th Sat (Mar-Nov) Chuckaroo
301-831-9666
as Sched
Jimmy reb
207-698-4436
as Sched
ripley Scrounger
207-876-3541
as Sched
dangerous d. dalton 207-667-3586
as Sched
Mark lake
207-622-9400
as Sched
leo
207-829-3092
1st Sat
No Cattle
616-363-2827
2nd Sat
Jonathan Slim Chance 574-277-9712
2nd Sun
Grubby hardrock
810-750-0655
2th Sat
Slippery pete
269-838-6944
3rd Sat
lazy Eye Ben
906-632-2720
3rd Sat
Cree Vicar dave
989-654-3636
3rd Sun
Saulk Valley Stubby 269-651-5197
4th Sat
trusty rusty
231-342-6462
4th Sat
rainmaker ray
248-991-9073
as Sch
terrebonne Bud
248-709-5254
as Sched
Boss Wheelwright 248-685-1206
as Sched
Katie Callahan
989-585-3292
as Sched
two rig a tony
616-891-6917
City
State
thurmont
frederick
damascus
Sanford/Springvale
Willmantic
Blue hill
augusta
falmouth
rockford
Buckanan
fenton
hastings
Sault Ste. Marie
Breckenridge
Sturgis
Central lake
plymouth
utica
Commerce tWp
Saginaw
Grand rapids
Md
Md
Md
ME
ME
ME
ME
ME
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Mi
Sun
1st & 3rd Sat
1st Sun
2nd Sat
ricochet Bill
d M yankee
Cantankerous Jeb
rev. Cepheus
810-441-2438
612-701-9719
763-682-3710
320-267-6576
attica
Morristown
howard lake
Saint Cloud
Mi
MN
MN
MN
2nd Sat
3rd Sun
4th Sun (apr-Sep)
1st Sat
1st Sun
2nd & 5th Sat
2nd Sun
3rd Sun
3rd Sun
4th Wknd
1st Sat
3rd Sat
4th & 5th Sat
Wagonmaster
BB Gunner
dawgnapper
dry Creek Jum
iza littleoff
Buckshot Baby
doolin riggs
X S Chance
Bounty Seeker
Smokie
Winchester
Squinter
Easy lee
218-744-4694
218-779-8555
320-275-2052
417-442-3144
816-524-1462
417-284-1432
573-687-3103
573-765-5483
636-464-6569
417-759-9114
601-445-5223
601-825-8640
662-838-7451
Virginia
East Grand forks
New ulm
Cassville
higginsville
tecumseh
fayette
St. robert
St. louis
Willard
Natchez
Mendenhall
Byhalia
MN
MN
MN
Mo
Mo
Mo
Mo
Mo
Mo
Mo
MS
MS
MS
1st Sat
1st Sun & 4th Sat
2nd Sat
2nd Wknd
3rd Sat
4th Sat
4th Sat
4th Sat
1st Sat
1st Sat
1st Sat
1st Sat
2nd Sat
diamond red
Jeb Stuart
Gooch hill drifter
Jocko
Bodie Camp
Gideon Withette
Backstrap Bill
Chisler Wood
Seth hawkins
Wendover Kid
tracker Mike
hiem
dodge City dude
406-685-3618
406-727-7625
406-763-4268
406-847-0745
406-883-6797
406-250-4790
406-652-6158
307-690-2676
910-346-3612
252-908-0098
336-595-8853
828-245-5563
910-270-3351
Ennis
Simms
logan
Noxon
Bigfork
Eureka
Billings
West yellowstone
hubert
rocky Mount
Salisbury
rutherfordton
Wilmington
Mt
Mt
Mt
Mt
Mt
Mt
Mt
Mt
NC
NC
NC
NC
NC
2nd Sat
2nd Sat
Wicked Wanda
Wild otter
919-266-1678
828-423-7796
Creedmore
asheville
NC
NC
2nd Sun
Carolina’s longarm 919-383-7567
2th Sat
Bostic Kid
704-434-2174
3rd Sat
huckleberry Mike 910-980-0572
3rd Sat
fannie Kikinshoot 828-754-1884
3rd Sun
Sam Carp
704-596-7120
4th Sat
Stump Water
704-630-9527
as Schd
roughrider ray
701-260-0347
as Sched
roughrider Jim Bob 701-673-3122
as Sched
doc hell
701-852-1697
last Sat (apr-Sep) Wild river rose
701-588-4331
1st Sun
firewater
308-226-2255
2nd Sun
panhandle Slim Miles 308-760-0568
2nd Sun
flint Valdez
712-323-8996
Eden
Bostic
Wagram
lenoir
Churchland
Statesville
Belfield
Moffit
Minot
Kindred
Grand island
alliance
louisville
NC
NC
NC
NC
NC
NC
Nd
Nd
Nd
Nd
NE
NE
NE
3rd Sun
fortyfour Maggie
308-383-4605
Grand island
NE
3rd Wknd (apr-oct)
as Sched
as Sched
as Sched
2nd Sun
4th Sun (Mar-Nov)
1st & 3rd Sat
1st & 4th Sat
littleton S. dalton
Sheriff r. p. Bucket
laconia
dead head
doc fanizzo
papa Grey
Grizzly adams
Sam Brannan
603-444-6876
603-345-6876
603-524-2240
603-772-2358
732-892-7272
732-961-6834
575-854-2488
505-400-2468
dalton
pelham
holderness
Candia
Minmouth
Jackson
Magdalena
rio rancho
Nh
Nh
Nh
Nh
NJ
NJ
NM
NM
1st Sat
Saguaro Sam
1st Sun
Johnny Bayou
1st Sun
two Bit tammy
2nd Sat
lawdog Bob
2nd Sat
Sgt. Shuster
2nd Sun
phillip doboy taylor
2nd Wed, 3rd Sat, 4th Sun,
& 5th Sat/ Sun
J. W. Calendar
Gila rangers
2nd Wknd
Chico Cheech
lost almost posse
3rd Sat
Beau legg
Seven rivers regulators
3rd Sat
Stink Creek Jones
rio Vaqueros
3rd Sun & 5th Sun J. W. Brockey
Monument Springs Bushwhackers 4th Sat
Val darrant
picacho posse
4th Sat
fast hammer
tres rios Bandidos
4th Sun
largo Casey
lone Wolf Shooters, llC
1st & 2nd Sun
penny pepperbox
high plains drifters
1st Sun
irish ike
Eldorado Cowboys
1st Wknd
Charming
fort halleck Volunteers
2nd & 4th Sat (Call) Green Springs thomsen
Nevada rangers Cowboy action
Shooting Society
2nd Sun
Cross Keystone
roop County Cowboy
Shooters association
2nd Sun
russ t. Chambers
desert desperados
3rd Sun
Buffalo Sam
Silver State Shootists
3rd Sun
tahoe Bill
Steptoe Valley raiders
4th Sat
Cheyenne Kid
Silver City Shooters Society
4th Sun
iona Vequero
tioga County Cowboys
1st Sat
dusty drifter
Crumhorn Mountain Cowboys
1st Sun
lefty Cooper
pathfinder pistoleros
1st Sun
Sonny
Boot hill regulators
1st Sun (apr-oct)
Judge Zaney Grey
Bar-20, inc.
2nd Sat
renegade ralph
Salt port Vigilance Committee
2nd Sat
twelve Bore
505-437-3663
505-281-5181
575-626-9201
505-883-8829
575-257-0871
505-286-6686
la luz
founders ranch
roswell
Edgewood
ruidoso
Edgewood
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
505-856-4046
575-388-2531
505-662-4757
575-885-9879
575-744-4484
575-396-5303
505-647-3434
505-330-2489
775-727-4600
775-424-2336
702-565-3736
775-753-8203
albuquerque
Silver City
los alamos
Carlsbad
t or C
hobbs
las Cruces
farmington
pahrump
fernley
Boulder City
Elko
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NV
NV
NV
NV
702-506-7023
Jean
NV
775-747-1426
702-459-6454
775-586-9178
775-296-2053
775-764-0257
607-659-4770
607-547-6008
315-695-7032
845-352-7921
315-363-5342
585-613-8046
Sparks
las Vegas
Carson City
Ely
indian Springs
owego
Maryland
fulton
Chester
West Eaton
holley
NV
NV
NV
NV
NV
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Club Name
Sched.
Border rangers
diamond four
hole in the Wall Gang Ny
Circle K regulators
d Bar d Wranglers
the long riders
rockdale renegades
the Shadow riders
East End regulators
Sackets harbor Vigilantes
Big irons
Middletown Sportsmens Club, inc.
tusco long riders
West Jeff Ghostriders
firelands peacemakers
2nd Sun (apr-oct) Badlands Buzz
3rd Sat
Kayutah Kid
3rd Sat
El fusilero
3rd Sun
Smokehouse dan
4th Sat
Captain M.a.f
4th Sun
loco poco lobo
as Sched
Scheriff richie
as Sched
dusty levis
last Sun
diamond rio
last Sun
ranger Clayton Conagher
1st Sat
deadwood Stan
1st Sat
deadwood Stan
1st Sat
Split rail
1st Sun
Col. Cord McNalley
1st Wed, 3rd Sat
Johnny Shiloh
& 5th Sun
2nd Sat
Woodfox
2nd Sat & 4th Sun
Shenango Joe
(May-oct)
2nd Sun
Buckshot Jones
3rd & 5th Sun
pickaway tracker
3rd Sat
paragon pete
3rd Sun
deputy diamond desperado
4th Sat
d. J. Mcdraw
4th Sun
Stagecoach hannah
last Sat (Mar-oct) flat iron fred
1st Sat & 3rd Sun Captain allyn Capron
1st Sun
paladenton
2nd Sat
Black river Jack
Sandusky County regulators
Shenango river rats
Miami Valley Cowboys
Scioto territory desperados inc.
Wilmington rough riders
auGlaize rough riders
ohio Valley Vigilantes
Central ohio Cowboys
Jackson Six Shooters
Shortgrass rangers
Cherokee Strip Shootists
rattlesnake Mountain rangers
tulsey town Cattlemens
association
oklahoma territorial Marshals
indian territory Single action
Shooting Society
tater hill regulators
horse ridge pistoleros inc.
dry Gulch desperados
Merlin Marauders
Molalla river rangers
Siuslaw river rangers
table rock rangers
pine Mountain posse
Klamath Cowboys
Jefferson State regulators
oregon trail regulators
orygun Cowboys
oregon old West Shooting Society
fort dalles defenders
umpqua regulators
lewis river rangers
Columbia County Cowboys
dry Gulch rangers
perry County regulators
Boot hill Gang of topton
Chimney rocks regulators
factoryville freebooters
Whispering pines Cowboy
Committee
Conestoga Wagoneers
heidelberg lost dutchmen
logans ferry regulators
Mainville Marauders
the dakota Badlanders
Westshore posse
river Junction Shootist Society
Jefferson outlaws
Easton Greenhorns
Blue Mountain rangers
Matamoras Mavericks
Silver lake Bounty hunters
purgatory regulators
Elstonville hombres
Stewart’s regulators
El posse Grande
palmetto posse
piedmont regulators
hurricane riders
Savannah river rangers
Geechee Gunfighters
Greenville Gunfighters
Cottonwood Cowboy association
Black hills Shootist association
Bald Mountain renegades
Bitter Creek rangers, the
Wartrace regulators
Greene County regulators
Memphis Gunslingers
orSa Cowboys
North West tennessee longriders
tennessee Mountain Marauders
highland regulators, inc
ocoee rangers
El Vaqueros
alamo area Moderators
South texas pistolaros
texas peacemakers
texas riviera pistoleros
texas troublemakers
orange County regulators
Buck Creek Bandoleros
Comanche trail Shootists
plum Creek Carriage &
Shooting Society
Badlands Bar 3
thunder river renegades
Concho Valley Shooters
Bounty hunters
travis County regulators
texas tenhorns Shooting Club
texican rangers
lone Star frontier Shooting Club
oakwood outlaws
Canadian river regulators
old fort parker patriots
Contact
Phone
607-898-3581
607-796-0573
631-864-1035
518-885-3758
845-226-8611
585-467-4429
607-783-2752
646-284-4010
631-585-1936
315-465-6543
513-894-3500
513-894-3500
330-364-6185
614-563-6070
City
Greene
odessa
Calverton
Ballston Spa
Wappingers fall
Shortsville
rockdale
Westhampton Beach
Westhampton
Sackets harbor
Middletown
Middletown
Midvale
West Jefferson
State
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
oh
oh
oh
oh
440-984-4551
419-726-7950
rochester
Gibsonburg
oh
oh
330-782-0958
937-418-7816
740-477-1881
740-626-7667
419-722-6345
740-767-2326
614-868-9821
330-538-2690
580-357-5870
405-547-2533
918-908-0016
yankee lake
piqua
Chillicothe
Wilmington
defiance
Mt. Vernon
Circleville
North Jackson
Grandfield
Stillwater
Checotah
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oK
oK
oK
2nd Sat & 4th Sat
Curly thom Mabry
2nd Sat & 4th Sun leroy rogers
2nd Sun, 3rd Sat, 4th Wed
& 5th Sun
Burly Bill
3rd Sun
taos Willie
1st & 3rd Sun
Big Casino
1st Sat
runamuck
1st Sat
Bear Bone Smith
1st Sat
Gold dust Bill
1st Sun
Johnny Jingos
1st Sun & 2nd Sat
Jed i. Knight
2nd Sun
Cowboss
2nd Sun & 4th Sat Mad river Mongo
3rd Sat
Jed i. Knight
3rd Sat
t. J. Maverick
3rd Sat & 4th Sat
dog-leg don
3rd Sun & 4th Sat
Mid Valley drifter
4th Sun
frisco Nell
4th Sun
Big lou
as Sch
Johnny Colt
as Sched
Kitty Colt
1st Sat
pepc holic
1st Sat
tuscarora Slim
1st Sun
lester Moore
1st Sun
hattie hubbs
1st Sun
tad Sloe
918-376-4376
405-799-0381
tulsa
oklahoma City
oK
oK
918-830-2936
918-355-2849
541-389-2342
509-525-2984
541-582-4144
503-705-1211
541-997-6313
541-944-2281
541-548-7325
541-884-1905
541-944-2281
541-667-2669
702-378-9885
541-259-2774
360-835-5630
541-484-5900
503-289-1280
503-642-4120
724-263-1461
717-789-3004
610-704-6792
814-696-5669
570-489-0652
Sand Springs
tulsa
Bend
Milton freewater
Merlin
Canby
florence
White City
Bend
Keno
ashland
la Grande
Sherwood
albany
the dalles
roseburg
St. helens
St. helens
Midway
ickesburg
topton
hollidaysburg
factoryville
oK
oK
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
1st Sun
Mac traven
1st Sun (dec-Mar) No Change
2nd Sat
ivory rose
2nd Sat
Mariah Kid
2nd Sun
dodge Bill
2nd Sun
Barley pop Bill
2nd Sun
doc hornaday
3rd Sat
deputy Keck
3rd Sat (Mar-Nov) oracle Jones
3rd Sat (Mar-oct)
ragweed
3rd Sun
Cathy fisher
3rd Sun
hammerin Steel
3rd Sun
Marshal t. J. Buckshot
3rd Wknd
dry Gulch Geezer
4th Sun
Basket lady
4th Sun
Sodbuster Burt
4th Sun (Mar-oct) Black hills Barb
1st Sat
dun Gamblin
2nd Sat
Chase randall
3rd Sat
Saloon Keeper
3rd Sun
Surly dave
4th Sat
Edisto ike
4th Sun
Cowboy Junky
2nd Sun
dakota Nailbender
3rd Sun
hawkbill Smith
4th Sun
Grease Cup
1st Sat
Silver Stallion
1st Sat
Will reily
1st Sat
Mort dooley
2nd Sat
Mountaineer lefty
2nd Sat
Kid Ziggy
3rd Sat
Can’t Shoot dillion
3rd Sat
double Barrel
3rd, 4th & 5th Wknd iron Maiden
4th Sat
ocoee red
1st & last Sun
tom doniphan
1st Sat
tombstone Mary
1st Sat
long John Beard
1st Sat
deadeye Greg
1st Sat
long Star
1st Sat
lefty tex larue
1st Sat $ 3rd Sun
texas Gator
1st Sat & 3rd Wknd hoofprint prine
1st Sat and 5th Sat dee horne
570-723-8885
215-431-2302
717-627-0694
412-607-5313
570-477-5667
610-770-1189
717-432-1352
724-423-6255
410-239-6795
610-847-2798
610-488-0619
570-296-5853
570-663-3045
814-827-2120
717-949-3970
724-479-8838
570-538-9163
803-422-5587
864-843-6154
843-361-2277
803-892-2812
843-869-2429
864-414-5578
605-520-5212
605-342-8946
605-598-6744
931-707-9452
615-948-4143
423-357-8464
901-388-6420
865-675-1270
731-885-8102
423-593-3767
423-628-2715
423-476-5303
254-559-9896
210-493-9320
210-414-7786
903-593-8215
361-334-1978
903-539-7234
409-243-3477
254-897-7328
432-556-8446
Wellsboro
Southampton
Schaefferstown
plum Borough
Mainville
orefield
New Cumberland
donegal
Jefferson
lower Saucon
hamburg
Milford
Montrose
titusville
Manheim
Shelocta
Muncy Valley
Columbia
anderson
aynor
Gaston
ridgeville
Greenville
Clark
pringle
faulkton
Crossville
Wartrace
rogersville
arlington
oak ridge
union City
Chattanooga
Winfield
Cleveland
Breckenridge
San antonio
San antonio
tyler
Corpus Christi
Brownsboro
orange
Nemo
Midland
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
SC
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Sd
Sd
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tN
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tN
tN
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tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
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1st Sat Sun
1st Wknd
1st wknd
2nd Sat
2nd Sat
2nd Sat
2nd Sun & 4th Sat
2nd Weekend
2nd Wknd
2nd Wknd
2nd, 3rd & 5th Sat
3rd Wknd
512-376-2602
903-272-9283
281-259-5202
325-656-1281
806-299-1192
979-561-6202
214-695-1946
830-377-6331
972-641-8585
903-545-2252
806-355-7158
254-412-0904
lockhart
English
Magnolia
San angelo
levelland
Smithville
Greenville
fredericksburg
Cleburne
oakwood
Clarendon
Groesbeck
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
delta raider
t-Bone dooley
double down dan
roamin Shields
Cable lockhart
Cherokee Granny
diablo Slim
dusty Chambers
texas Banker
texas alline
Blacksmith Jim
Slowaz Molasses
Page 98
Cowboy Chronicle
December 2009
SASS AFFILIATED CLuBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDuLE (Cont.)
Club Name
Sched.
Contact
3rd Sat
Shynee Graves
Big thicket outlaws
Cottonwood Creek Cowboys
3rd Sat
tracks
3rd Sat
Eli Blue
Gruesome Gulch Gang
3rd Sat
tombstone Mary
San antonio rough riders
3rd Sat
Whiskey runner
tejas Caballeros
red river regulators
3rd Sun
El rio rojo ray
Charles Goodnight
texas historical Shootist Society 3rd Sun
4th Sat
texas Slim
Butterfield trail regulators
4th Sat
Singin’ Zeke
Green Mountain regulators
huaco rangers
4th Sat
Blueeyed Bear
4th Sat
armed to the teeth
purgatory ridge rough riders
4th Wknd
denton dancer
Comanche Valley Vigilantes
4th Wknd
texas paladin
tejas pistoleros, inc.
tin Star texans
4th Wknd
dusty lone Star
1st Sat
p.J. McCarthy
Big hollow Bandits
1st Sat
lance Vigil
Copenhagen Valley regulators
1st Sat
autum rose
North rim regulators
Crow Seeps Cattle Company l.l.C. 1st. Sat
Buffalo Juan
2nd &4th Sat
Moe Greens
dixie desperados
Jackalope roper
deseret historical Shootist Society 2nd Sat
hobble Creek Wranglers
2nd Sat
hobble Creek Marshall
rio Verde rangers
2nd Sat
doc Nelson
2nd. Sat
Wasatch ranger
Cache Valley Vaqueros
3rd & 5th Sat
Jubal o. Sackett
utah War
3rd Sat
Cinch
diamond Mountain rustlers
Mesa Marauders Gun Club
3rd Sat
Copper queen
3rd Sat
Second amendment
three peaks rangers
3rd Sun
Boots rob
Wasatch Summit regulators
Castle Gate posse
4th Sat
Cowboy M. Maude
Wahsatch desperados
4th Sat
Sly Steadyhand
1st Sat
V. B. Southpaw
pungo posse
1st Sun
thunder Colt
liberty long riders
1st Sun (Mar-dec) Kuba Kid
Cavalier Cowboys
Virginia City Marshals
1st tues
humphrey hook
2nd Sun
Bad Company
Blue ridge regulators
3rd Sat
Cousin Wilfred
K.C.’s Corral
Mattaponi Sundowners
3rd Sun & 4th Sat
flatboat Bob
Bend of trail
4th Sun
Cavern Bill
4th Sun
Slip hammer Spiv
pepper Mill Creek Gang
alt. 1st Sat & Sun
Brizco-Z
Stovall Creek regulators
See Sched
Virginia ranger
rivanna ranger Company
Verdant Mountain Vigilantes
as Sched
Snake-Eye alger
Mica peak Marshals
1st & 3rd Sat
old timer Gus
Granny Gunsmoke
North East Washington regulators 1st Wknd
renton united Cowboy
action Shooters
1st Wknd
Jess ducky
Mima Marauders
2nd Sat
okie Sawbones
hellfire
Wolverton Mountain peace Keepers 2nd Sat
2nd Sun
Snapshot Sal
Colville Guns and roses
Smokey point desperados
2nd Sun
Mudflat Mike
apple Valley Marshals
3rd Sat
Silent Sam
Ghost riders
3rd Sun
Sidewinder Sam
Black river regulators
4th Sat
Montana Slim
Custer renegades
4th Sun
Joe Cannuck
pataha rustlers
4th Sun
doc day
poulsbo pistoleros
4th Sun
Sourdough George
rattlesnake Gulch rangers
last Sat
ricochet robbie
Beazley Gulch rangers
last Sun
an E. di
rock river regulators
1st & 3rd Sat
Stoney Mike
Western Wisconsin Wild Bunch
2nd Sat
Sierra Jack Cassidy
Bristol plains pistoleros
2nd Sun
huckleberry
Crystal river Gunslingers
2nd Sun
Ghost Chaser
Wisconsin old West Shootist, inc. 2nd Sun & 4th Sat
(apr-oct)
tracker Jack daniels
liberty prairie regulators
3rd Sat
dirty deeds
hodag County Cowboys
3rd Sun
hodag Bob
oconomowoc Cattlemen’s
association
4th Sat
Marvin the Moyle
the Bad Guys posse
as Sched
Speedy dan
dawn Ghost riders
1st Sun
Coffee Bean
frontier regulators
2nd Sat
Captain tay
the railtown rowdys
2nd Sun
Miss print
rocky holler regulators
3rd Sun
Jessee Earp
Kanawha Valley regulators
3rd Wknd
pike Marshall
Cowboy action Shooting
Sports, inc.
4th Sun (Mar-Nov) Jackson
Cheyenne regulators, inc.
1st Sat
dr. frank powell
Colter’s hell Justice Committee
WSaS
1st Sat
yakima red
Bessemer Vigilance Committee
1st Sun
Smokewagon Bill
high lonesome drifters
2nd Sat
Kari lynn
Southfork Vigilance Committee
WSaS
2nd Sat
Wennoff halfcock
Sybille Creek Shooters
2nd Sat
Wyoming roy
powder river Justice Committee
WSaS
3rd Sun
doc fehr
donkey Creek Shootists
4th Sun
poker Jim
Snake river rowdies
as Sched
Sheriff J. r. quigley
Phone
City
State
409-860-5526
325-207-1094
806-293-2909
210-493-9320
512-288-3399
903-838-0964
281-342-1210
325-668-4884
830-693-4215
254-715-0746
806-777-6182
214-384-3975
713-690-5313
210-273-5517
435-671-1929
435-723-5115
435-644-5053
435-528-7432
435-668-6622
801-969-7390
801-489-7681
435-564-8210
435-723-1651
801-944-3444
435-724-2575
435-979-4664
435-590-5436
435-649-3625
435-637-8209
801-546-4843
757-471-6190
540-296-0772
804-270-9054
703-801-3507
540-886-3374
804-932-9952
804-785-2575
540-380-4965
540-775-4561
434-929-1063
434-973-8759
802-476-6247
509-325-9253
509-684-4476
Beaumont
Snyder
plainview
San antonio
driftwood
texarkana
Columbus
abilene
Marble falls
China Spring
Slaton
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heber
Mantua
Kanab
Mayfield
St. George
Kaysville
Springville
Green river
logan
Salt lake City
Vernal
lake powell
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park City
price
fruit heights
Wakefield
Bedford
hanover County
fairfax
lexington
Mechanicsville
West point
roanoke
King George
lynchburg
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Mica
Colville
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
tX
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
ut
Va
Va
Va
Va
Va
Va
Va
Va
Va
Va
Va
Vt
Wa
Wa
425-271-9286
360-705-3601
360-513-9081
509-684-6787
425-335-5176
509-884-3875
425-836-8053
360-754-4328
360-676-2587
509-382-4898
360-830-0100
509-628-0889
509-787-1782
608-868-5167
608-792-1494
815-675-2566
715-281-7823
renton
olympia
ariel
Colville
arlington
East Wenatchee
fall City
littlerock
Custer
dayton
poulsbo
Benton City
quincy
Beloit
holmen
Bristol
Waupaca
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wa
Wi
Wi
Wi
Wi
715-643-2011
920-748-4833
715-550-8337
Boyceville
ripon
rhinelander
Wi
Wi
Wi
414-254-5592
262-728-6577
304-327-9884
304-265-5748
304-589-6162
304-425-2023
304-925-9342
Concord
Elkhorn
hinton
thorton
Bluefield
princeton
Eleanor
Wi
Wi
WV
WV
WV
WV
WV
540-678-0735
307-637-0350
largent
Cheyenne
WV
Wy
307-254-2090
307-472-1926
307-587-2946
Various locations Wy
Casper
Wy
Cody
Wy
507-332-5035
307-322-3515
lander
Wheatland
Wy
Wy
307-683-3320
307-660-0221
307-733-4559
Buffalo
Gillette
Jackson
Wy
Wy
Wy
CANADIAN MONTHLY MATCHES
rocky Mountain house
old West Shootists
red Mountain renegades
Valley regulators
palmer’s Gulch Cowboys
Victoria frontier Shootists
Western Canadian frontier
Shootists Society
Nova Scotia Cowboy action
Shooting Club
the Badlands of h. a. h. a.
Barrie Gun Club
lambton Sportsman’s Club
Wentworth Shooting
Sports Club
ottawa Valley Marauders
Waterloo County revolver
association
aurora desperados
Champ de tir
Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur
alberta frontier Shootists
as Sched
1st Sun
3rd Sat
as Sched
as Sched
luke a. leathersmith
Judge Bill Spinks
high Country amigo
Caribou lefty
teacher C.
403-845-4347
604-526-0836
250-334-3479
250-372-0416
250-592-4311
rocky Mnt house
Mission
Courtenay
heffley Creek
Victoria
al
BC
BC
BC
BC
CaNada
CaNada
CaNada
CaNada
CaNada
as Sched
Gunfighter Jim
250-573-2885
Kamloops
BC
CaNada
3rd Sun
1st Sat
2nd & 4th Sat
2nd Sat
Wounded Belly
r.t. Ways
Northern Crow
payton
902-890-2310
905-627-4123
705-435-2807
519-337-9058
truro, NS
ancaster
Barrie
St. Clair
NS
oN
oN
oN
CaNada
CaNada
CaNada
CaNada
2nd Sun
as Sched
Stoney Creek
Button
905-664-3217
514-792-0063
hamilton
ottawa
oN
oN
CaNada
CaNada
as Sched
1st fri
ranger pappy Cooper 519-536-9184
destry
905-727-8987
kitchener
aurora
oN
oN
CaNada
CaNada
as Sched
as Sched
richelieu Mike
Mustang heart
Napierville
qC
rocky Mtn house
CaNada
CaNada
450-658-8130
780-464-4600
Club Name
Sched.
Contact
Phone
City
State
EuROPE MONTHLY MATCHES
Sweetwater Gunslingers
austria
as Sched
fra diabolo
[email protected] Vienna
old West Shooting
as Sched
hondo Janssen
044-271-99 47
Zurich
Society Switzerland
association of Western
as Sched
thunderman
420-603-222-400
prelouc
Shooters
Jail Bird’s Company
Monday
orlando a Brick Bond 0049 2131 7423065
Wegberg
Monday
Niers river Kid
0049-2823-98080
Wegberg
SaSS-Europe
Cas-Europe
Wed
hurricane irmi
0049-2823-5807
Bocholt
NrW
Wed
rhine river Joe
0049-2823-5807
Spork
SaSS Germany
Cowboy action Shootinglast Sat
Marshal heck
+49 160 97652588
Edderitz
Germany
association of danish
Western Shooters
as Sch
Mrs. Stowaway
+45 602 013 65
Greve
Classic old Western
Society of finland
as Sched
Capt. Woodbury Kane
3.58505E+11
loppi
Various
Capt. Woodbury Kane
3.58505E+11
Various
SaSS finland
Golden triggers of freetown
1st Sun Capt. Jack dimonds leBeau (33) 627721309
Villefrache de rouergue
2nd Sun
Jeppesen
01 46 61 17 98
antony
l’arquebuse d’antony
dimanche
lictevoet Jean-Claude
+33(0)466 759 529
uzes
les tireurs de l’uzege
Club de tir de Bernay
Sat
Chriswood
02.32.45.59.00
Bernay
Societe de tir Bedoin
Ventoux
Sat-Sun
Sheriff Ch. outhpaw
049 035 1973
Bedoin
Sun
Barth
33 0 6 13 24 61 28
lyon
tir olympique lyonnais
Cowboy action Shooting
Varies
Charles allan Jeppesen 33146611798
Varies
france
as Sched
Jesse Sandwhite [email protected] Villefranche sur Saone
Club de tir Beaujolais
Kells County regulators
1st Sat
indepenence Carroll
028 9336 8004
Varies
3rd Sun
ivan Bandito
-430708
Mazzano
lassiter fan Shooting Club
old West Shooting Society
as Sched
alchimista
39-3342068337
italy
italy
honky tonk rebels
last Sun
Kaboom andy
39 335 7378551
Vigevano
Sun
Marshal Steven Gardiner -24883
trevi
Green hearts regulator
Sun
alchimista
-3342068304
Malegno-BS
Wild West rebels
Maremma Bad land’s riders as Sched
alameda Slim
[email protected] Siena
old Gunners Shooting ClubWestern Shootist posse
Martex
-551695
toppo di travesio
as Sched
oversize
+ 35 056424677
livorno
fratelli della Costa onlus
SaSS luxembourg
as Sched
Smiley Miles
+352-621 280 606
Varies
as Sched
lightning anja
0031-517-592120
leeuwarden
SaSS Netherlands
SaSS Norway
as Sched
Charles quantrill
47-932-59-669
loten
Schedsmoe County
thurs
Jailbird
47-6399-4279
lillestrom
rough riders
quantrill raiders
Sun (May-Sep) Charles quantrill
4793259669
loten
Varies
Wild Bull
4658612045
Varies
SaSS Sweden
at
Ch
CZ
dE
dE
dE
dE
dE
dK
fi
fi
fr
fr
fr
fr
fr
fr
fr
fr
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it
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it
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No
No
No
SE
SOuTH AFRICA MONTHLY MATCHES
Western Shooters of
South africa
3rd Sat
richmond p. hobson
027-21-797-5054
Cape town
Sa
DOWN uNDER MONTHLY MATCHES
Gold Coast Gamblers
1st & 3rd Sat
SSaa-SaSa little river raiders
Single action Club
3rd Sun
Cowboy action Shooters of
australia
3rd Wknd
fort Bridger Shooting Club inc. 4th Sun
SSaa Single action Shootingaustralia
Sat/Sun
adelaide pistol &
Shooting Club
1st Sat & 3rd Sun
trail Blazers Gun Club
1st Sun
Bullet Spittin Sons o’ thunder 2nd Sat
frontier & Western Shooting Sports
association
2nd Sun
Wairarapa pistol and Shooting
Club, inc.
2nd Sun
tararua rangers
3rd Sun
Western renegades
4th Sat
dagger Jack
61-7-5537-5857
Gold Coast
qld
au
tiresome
02 5978 0190
Melbourne
ViC
au
i.d.
duke york
02-9975-7983
61-3-9551-2902
teralba
drouin
NSW
ViC
au
au
Virgil Earp
61-7-4695-2050
Millmerran
qld
au
lobo Malo
Ernie Southpaw
Billy deadwood
61-8-2890606
64-3-755-7654
64-6-3564720
Korunye
Mill town
palmerston N.
S.a
au
NZ
NZ
Souther Cross
0064 6 3798086
doc hayes
06 379 6692
J.E.B. Stuart
(64) 6 3796436
Black Bart Bolton 027 249 6270
Carterton
NZ
Gladstone
Carterton
Wanganui
NZ
NZ
NZ
SASS MOuNTED MONTHLY MATCHES
tombstone Ghost riders
Mounted Club
2nd Sun
prescott ranch rangers
Varies
Ghost town riders
1st Sun
roy rogers rangers
2nd Wknd
California range riders
as Sched
revengers of Montezuma
1st Sun (apr-oct)
florida outlaws Cowboy Mounted
Shooting
as Sched
Border Marauders Mounted
as Sched
Broken Spoke Mounted posse
as Sched
thurmont Mounted rangers
3rd Sun
New hampshire Mounted Shooters as Sched
Cowboy legends Mounted Shooting
association
as Sched
Buffalo range riders Mounted
2nd Sat
Single action Mounted Shooting
1st Sat
oklahoma Gunslingers
as Sched
lone pine rangers
3rd Sat
liberty prairie Mounted Shooters
as Sched
Quebec Mounted Shooting
Association
Varies
dan Nabbit
July Johnson
Steely Eyes Earp
Wildcat Kate
old Buckaroo
aneeda huginkiss
520-456-0423
951-775-1957
951-737-6596
951-928-4601
408-710-1616
970-565-8479
tombstone
paulden
Norco
Winchester
Varies
Cortez
aZ
aZ
Ca
Ca
Ca
Co
lone Wolf McCrary
Bad Buffalo Bob
El paisano
timber Smoke
Myaz B. dragon
321-263-5239
208-610-8229
217-964-2433
410-997-9370
603-487-3379
Williston
Eastport
Mendon
thurmont
New Boston
fl
id
il
Md
Nh
pompton plains
founders ranch
las Vegas
Claremore
prineville
ripon
NJ
NM
NV
oK
or
Wi
Crown royal Cowboy 973-296-6283
505-843-1320
hell Bent Wade
702-994-9714
ima Sandy Storm
918-244-8060
hawkeye Scout
541-447-7012
ace Montana
920-960-1714
dirty owl Bert
819-424-7842
Joliette
qC
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December 2009
SASS AFFILIATED CLuBS ANNuAL MATCHES
Match Name
Sched.
Contact
Phone
top Gun
dec 12 - 13, 09
Buffalo Brady
772-344-6119
dec 12 - 12, 09
an E. di
509-787-1782
Cowboy Christmas Ball
SASS Hawaii State Championship
dec 26 - 29, 09
Bad Burt
808-875-9085
Great Pineapple Shoot
Gun Smoke in the Gulch
dec 26 - 26, 09
hungry Bear
850-929-2406
New year Showdown
Jan 01 - 01, 10
yukon Willie
978-663-3342
Jan 01 - 02, 10
Moe Green
435-668-6622
holiday Shoot
SASS Florida State Championship
Jan 08 - 10, 10
Weewahootee
407-857-1107
The Last Stand
Jan 15 - 17, 10
Cluelass
928-726-7727
yuma territorial prison Breakout
Jan 22 - 24, 10
fast hammer
505-647-3434
ambush at Butterfield trail
high Noon at the tombstone livery
feb 10 - 14, 10
Wily yankee
520-400-5598
feb 20 - 21, 10
l. topay
305-233-5756
Gold Coast Gunfight 2009
feb 20 - 21, 10
Squibber
520-568-2852
fire N ice
SASS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
feb 24 - 28, 10
Justice B dunn
928-636-4911
Winter Range
hot lead in deadwood 7
feb 26 - 28, 10
Barkeeps
225-715-8711
Shootout in the hills
Mar 06 - 06, 10
lady robin
352-429-2587
Mar 12 - 14, 10
possum Skinner
337-375-2115
Bayou Blast
Mar 19 - 21, 10
Sassy teton lady
352-357-3065
the ide’s of March
Mar 19 - 21, 10
Squibber
520-568-2852
Gathering of the posses
the plainfield incident
Mar 25 - 28, 10
Baldy Green
707-425-8569
trailhead ‘10
Mar 25 - 28, 10
Charles Goodnight
281-342-1210
SASS Georgia State Championship
apr 08 - 10, 10
Easy rider
770-841-4135
Ride of The Immortals
SASS Georgia State Black Powder
Shootout
apr 08 - 10, 10
tuco forsyth
770-358-3363
SASS Midwest Territorial Black Powder Shootout
Smoke in the Woods
apr 10 - 11, 10
deadwood Stan
513-894-3500
SASS Washington State Blackpowder Shootout A Dark Day at
apr 10 - 11, 10
ricocchet robbie
509-628-0889
Rattlesnake Gulch
SASS California State Black Powder Shootout Resurrection
at Robbers Roost
apr 10 - 11, 10
Just George
760-677-9109
Shootout at fort Miller
apr 15 - 17, 10
Slick rock rooster
559-299-8669
apr 16 - 18, 10
t. E. Kidd
562-598-7771
Glory hole
SASS Delaware State Championship
apr 16 - 18, 10
deacon Will
302-422-6534
Round-up on the Nantcoke
SASS North Carolina Black Powder Shootout
Smoke on the Border
apr 16 - 17, 10
Carolina Jack
910-864-9875
SASS Mississippi State Championship
apr 16 - 19, 10
Squinter
601-825-8640
Showdown in Purgatory
SASS EoT “Preview Match” Mounted State Championship
Buffalo Stampede
apr 22 - 25, 10
SaSS office
505-843-1320
dry Gulch at arroyo Cantua
apr 22 - 25, 10
Sutter lawman
530-589-6901
SASS FOuR CORNERS REGIONAL
apr 22 - 25, 10
SaSS office
505-843-1320
Buffalo Stampede
SASS California State Championship
apr 29 - 02, 10
Mad dog draper
805-497-2857
Shootout at 5 Dog Creek
SASS Texas State Championship
Comancheria Days
apr 29 - 02, 10
dusty Chambers
830-377-6331
SASS Kentucky State Championship
May 01 - 02, 10 appalachian alan
859-749-9292
Hooten Holler Round-up
May 01 - 01, 10 done Gone
770-361-6966
ride of the rough riders
Shootout on the little river
May 01 - 01, 10 Big Boyd
229-244-3161
Battle of rogue river
May 07 - 09, 10 Molly B’ dam
541-479-2928
Spring avalanche Stampede
May 13 - 15, 10 five Card tanna
907-789-7498
SASS Arizona State Blackpowder Shootout
May 13 - 16, 10 Silverado Cid
928-595-1230
Tonto Rim Smoke Out
SASS West Virginia Blackpowder State Championship
May 14 - 16, 10 Eddie rebel
307-397-6188
Smoke over Buffalo Flats
Shootout at leadville
May 14 - 16, 10 Colt Starbucks
410-902-7939
Billy dixon
May 15 - 15, 10 Cinch
435-724-2575
SASS Illinois State Championship Spring
Roundup at the Gulch
May 20 - 23, 10 randolpn raider
618-443-2983
Shootout at three fingers Saloon
May 21 - 23, 10 dirty Sally
805-438-4817
SASS WERSTERN TERRITORIAL BLACK POWDER SHOOTOuT
Ambush at Mill Creek
May 21 - 23, 10 ivory Jack McCloud 714-739-2721
SASS Southwest Wild Bunch Championship
Shootout at Butterfield Trail
May 21 - 23, 10 fast hammer
575-647-3434
SASS utah State Blackpowder Shootout
Castle Gate Smudge Match
May 22 - 22, 10 Cwby Murderin Maude 435-637-8209
SASS SOuTHEAST REGIONAL
The Shootout at Mule Camp
May 27 - 30, 10 Marshal dan Cutter
770-786-9235
SASS SOuTHEAST TERRITORIAL BLACKPOWDER SHOOuTOuT
The Shootout at Mule Camp
May 27 - 27, 10 Marshal dan Cutter
770-786-9235
SASS Vermont State Championship
Green Mountain Mayhem
May 28 - 30, 10 doc McCoy
802-434-2533
SASS Texas State Black Powder Shootout
Resurrection
May 28 - 31, 10 dusty lone Star
210-273-5517
Great lakes Match #13
May 29 - 30, 10 Wall-Man
248-628-7424
St. Jude Children’s hospital
Charity Shoot
May 29 - 30, 10 Shamrock Sis
309-798-2635
SASS Pennsylvania State Championship
North Mountain Shoot Out XI
May 29 - 31, 10 Black hills Barb
570-538-9163
fast and furious
May 29 - 30, 10 Goat roper
620-345-3151
SASS Arkansas State Championship Pursuit
By Rooster Cogburn’s Posse
Jun 04 - 06, 10
Sister Sundance
479-970-7042
SASS MA, CT, and RI State Championship
Shootout at Sawyer Flats
Jun 04 - 06, 10
Barrister Bill
978-667-2219
The Great Northwestern
SASS Wild Bunch Championship
Jun 04 - 06, 10
texas Jack Morales
541-420-3955
Western States Cowboy action Shooting Jun 10 - 13, 10
dutch dalton
[email protected]
SASS Wyoming State Championship
Cody’s Wild West Shootout
Jun 10 - 12, 10
Joe Cross
307-587-2946
Gunfight in the Badlands
Jun 11 - 13, 10
Cow Boss
541-408-5890
Shootout at the Bar M ranch
Jun 12 - 12, 10
Buckshot Baby
417-284-1432
revenge of Montezuma
Jun 18 - 20, 10
Stumble lenna
970-565-9228
SASS High Plains Mounted Regional
Revenge Of Montezuma
Jun 18 - 20, 10
aneeda huginkiss
970-565-8479
rifleman’s holliday
Jun 19 - 20, 10
Mustang lady Sue
928-243-3457
the dalton Gand June Shootout
Jun 19 - 20, 10
littleon Sidecar dalton603-444-6875
SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
END of TRAIL
Jun 21 - 27, 10
SaSS office
505-843-1320
SASS Maryland State Championship
Thunder Valley Days
Jun 24 - 26, 10
Chuckaroo
301-831-9666
SASS New Hampshire State Championship
Flat Gap Jack Cowboy Shootout
Jun 25 - 27, 10
Capt. Morgan rum
603-772-5041
SASS Wisconsin State Black Powder Shootout
Smoke in the Hills
Jun 27 - 27, 10
Cattail rose
715-643-2011
SASS HIGH PLAINS REGIONAL
Hell on Wheels
Jul 01 - 04, 10
fight’n Joe Baker
307-220-5222
SASS Alaska Territorial Championship Shootout
under The Midnight Sun
Jul 02 - 04, 10
tripod
907-373-0140
SASS Washington State Championship
Westmatch XVII
Jul 06 - 08, 10
the Elder Katie
253-946-1438
City
State
Match Name
indiantown
quincy
fl
Wa
lahaima
pinetta
Bedford
St. George
hi
fl
Ma
ut
orlando
yuma
las Cruses
tombstone
fort lauderdale
Casa Grande
fl
aZ
NM
aZ
fl
aZ
phoenix
Sorrento
howey
lake Charles
tavares
Casa Grande
davis
Columbus
aZ
la
fl
la
fl
aZ
Ca
tX
Griffin
Ga
SASS Montana State Championship
Jul 09 - 11, 10
Jeb’s lady
Shootout On the Sun River
SASS Pennsylvania State Black Powder Shootout
Jul 16 - 16, 10
deputy Keck
Smoke and Fire at Indian Creek
Shootout at horse ridge &
Jul 22 - 25, 10
Big Casino
the 2010 SaSS Governor’s Cup
SASS NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL
The Great Nor’easter
Jul 22 - 25, 10
Sheriff r. p. Bucket
SASS Iowa State Championship
aug 06 - 08, 10 range Mathias fischels
Ambush on the Prairie
SASS WILD BuNCH WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP
aug 05 - 08, 10
SaSS office
SASS Alaska State Blackpowder Shootout
aug 07 - 07, 10
four Bucks
Smoke in the Greatland
SASS MIDWEST REGIONAL
aug 12 - 15, 10
deadwood Stan
Guns of August
SASS Oregon State Championship
aug 13 - 15, 10
Mid Valley drifter
Shootout at Saddle Butte
fire in the hills
aug 27 tracker Jack daniels
SASS Nebraska State Championship
Sep 02 - 05, 10
firewater
Midwest Roundup
SASS Four Corners Territorial Black Powder Shootout
Sep 09 - 12, 10
Wily yankee
Last Stand on Allen St.
SASS New Mexico State Championship
Old Magdalena
Sep 17 - 19, 10
Grizzly adams
Sep 18 - 19, 10
Marty Moss
a Gunfight in dixie
Sep 18 - 19, 10
lazy Eye Ben
Chippewa regulators
Sep 18 - 19, 10
ripley Scrounger
Willimantic Smoke
Shootout at three rivers
Sep 23 - 26, 10
o Bar freddie
SASS NORTHWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Rattlesnake Gulch Roundup
Sep 23 - 26, 10
ricochet robbie
SASS Indiana State Championship
Sep 24 - 26, 10
thorney rose
Hoosier Ambush
Sep 24 - 26, 10
Whisperin Meadows
Verde Valley range Wars
fall roundup
Sep 25 - 26, 10
Shamrock Sis
SASS Nevada State Championship
Sep 30 - 03, 10
Charming
Eldorado
SASS Alabama State Championship
oct 01 - 03, 10
May lillie
Ambush At Cavern Cove
SASS Tennessee State Championship
Regulators Reckoning
oct 08 - 09, 10
Will reilly
the geronimo trail Shootout
oct 08 - 10, 10
Chico Cheech
SASS Louisiana State Championship
oct 08 - 10, 10
louisiana lady
Shootout at Cypress Creek
the Whoopin’
oct 16 - 16, 10
texas heat
Smoke on the river
oct 16 - 16, 10
Shamrock Sis
hanging tree Shootout
oct 17 - 17, 10
X S Chance
SASS Arizona State Championship
oct 20 - 24, 10
Swift Water
Bordertown
oct 22 - 24, 10
dusty levi’s
the hole in the Wall long island
legends of the West
oct 23 - 24, 10
Bojack
Blue Mountain Shootout
oct 29 - 31, 10
lester Moore
oct 31 - 31, 10
Shady Brady
Vengeance trail
SASS North Carolina State Championship
Nov 04 - 06, 10
Carolina Jack
uprising at Swearing Creek
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Hangin’ at Coyote Creek
Nov 12 - 14, 09
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Cowboy Champs
oct 23 - 24, 10
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Malahat ridge
feb 07 - 07, 10
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Nimrod/ Buffalo Shoot
apr 17 - 18, 10
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Shootout at the ridge
May 21 - 23, 10
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headquarters
aug 21 - 22, 10
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Bunkhouse
oct 24 - 24, 10
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Nov 06 - 08, 09
Mister Skye
rawhide
Nov 14 - 15, 09
tiresome
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Chisholm Trail 2009
Sep 27 - 03, 10
Virgil Earp
SASS NEW ZEALAND REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Highnoon 2009
Nov 04 - 08, 09
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oct 25 - 25, 09
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SASS EoT “Preview Match” Mounted State Championship
Buffalo Stampede
apr 22-25, ‘10
SASS High Plains Mounted Regional
Revenge Of Montezuma
Jun 18-20, ‘10
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City lake Mercantile
don’s Weaponry, inc.
Marksman pistol institute
piney Woods trading post
1880’s Etc
allsafe Security
ariZona Sun Mercantile
arizona Vintage Saddlery
Buckaroo Bobbins
Cedar ridge Saddlery
Cochise leather
Cowboy Corral
derby Guns
Earthwalkers
Griffin Gun leather
high Country Gun’s & Knives
hunter’s paradise, inc.
international handgun leather
J.B. hickok Mercantile
Jensens / arizona Sportsman #4
Joe Wilcox Western Wear
legendary Guns
Marshal Bo’s old West Mercnatile
Mary’s place reenactment Shop
old Western Gun repair
on target Enterprise
outlaw Grips
pakem firearms N. Mercantile
Saber river Gunsmithing
Sam’s Shooters Emporium
Smoke N Guns
Squibber’s old Western Gun repair
thunderstick trading Company ltd.
tim Carson Gunsmithing
Victorian Cowgirl
West fargo Gunsmithing
Wild West Merchantile
Wm. Brown holster Company
ade’s Gun Shop
B-Bar-y traders
Bain & davis
Bees leather Company
BootBarn.com
Clark’s Victorian Mercantile
Costplusguns.com
Cowboys & indian Store, llC
del Valle Gunsmithing
duncan’s Gunworks, inc.
E.M.f. Company inc.
fort Courage armory
fowler Gun room
Glory days Gun leather
Gold Creek trading Company
Golden Gate Western Wear
Grant Boys, the
Guns 4 us inc.
Gunslingers Gun Shop
high desert Storm Sporting arms
lazy C Gun Carts &
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load-X ammunition Co.
lock & load Gunsmithing
Mojave leather
old Sacramento armoury
pair-o-dice Mercantile
peacemaker Specialists
rancho Cordova Guns and ammo
red river “d”
rMB Enterprises
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Shasta leather Works
Sierra Shooting Sports
Sportsman’s Warehouse
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tabor’s Shooters Supply, inc.
ten-X ammunition
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Walker 47
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Wild Sports
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double B traders, ltd
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pWp outfitter’s, iNC
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the Blunderbuss
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artistic Blades
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Jerry Simpson
618-654-3235
John picchietti
847-549-6226
teri Kramer
815-894-2239
William oglesby
217-487-7100
Steve lee Selby
217-636-7167
david Barth
309-347-6060
Gary Blansett
309-833-3889
Charlotte King
309-367-4575
dennis W. leifheit
815-501-9421
Greg tymn
317-640-0172
randy l. ludwig
877-689-BEar
Charles h. plunkett
317-539-4135
Keith harrison
260-854-3297
Sue Kempf
219-872-7957
fred ludington
765-468-8136
dan parmenter
812-963-6828
Edward r. happe
812-453-9092
Michael Koonce
812-431-0281
Vincent Gamble
317-769-3236
dennis E. Shewell
812-522-7978
J.W. fogle d.V.M
260-657-5456
James a. Buchanan
260-417-2099
Curt Ebersole
574-269-9911
Monte rakestraw
316-522-9314
robert h. Muir
785-823-6986
tom Ewing
785-475-3268
Jim Gray
785-472-4703
Steve Westervelt
620-251-1160
tim C. Winningham
316-612-9900
Budd Gardstein
606-864-1470
aramis Gulbeyan
859-781-4301
Jeff Baird
606-354-3121
arthur Chap, Jr.
270-489-2089
Beth Meredith
270-622-6137
Steve rose
270-348-3262
finley W hootsell
318-336-8925
Bill Klonaris
225-695-6070
daniel p. Calvert
225-293-5467
Marc a. Vanderkarr
318-396-6319
Bruce McNeely
337-533-9100
Jason robinson
318-395-2224
douglas Marion Whittenberg 318-419-2208
pierre Voinche
337-774-4570
Michael l. Nappi Jr.
781-581-5031
William Schneider
301-279-7983
Bob Schneider
301-585-4448
Mariah Neff
301-733-7303
randy fern
810-629-5325
Mike Stempien
517-639-7191
tommy Vaughan
734-326-7320
William Nederhoed
269-375-5829
howard Bragg
320-598-7384
Martin J. ahlman
507-685-4511
dan Cochran
507-249-2635
John Koppi
651-483-9406
dain olson
320-979-1745
david J. Meacham
651-731-4400
tom radde
952-446-9388
Nick Newman
417-868-8083
david Carl holst
573-449-0667
dutch Becker
816-318-4867
Jean Warren
816-781-9473
Bill Scrivner
417-582-2707
richard M. Barnes
800-235-8960
thomas Buchanan
601-580-3171
finley W hootsell
601-445-8939
Edgardo Gierbolini
406-873-4872
Mike B. Krueger
406-323-3062
Becky Munden
406-494-2833
toni James
800-494-5442
todd Bennett
336-232-5788
December 2009
STORE NAME
B SASS AFFILIATED MERCHANT LIST b
Custom Gunsmithing
daddy rabbits
davi’s indoor range and Shooting Sports
donnie’s Shooting Supplies llC
Jackson’s Western Store
p.f. Custom Guns
poteat’s Guns
Cowboy leather
d.a. Miller Maker Custom leather Goods
Gun City
r & G Gunsmiths
fort Western outfitter
philip J. rezac l.l.C.
redwing trading
run -N- iron Customizing
the Bullet hole
Wild West armorer
Work-N-ranch
al’s Gun & reel Shop, inc.
E.N.Briand Sports Shop
august arms
Bronco Sue Custom hats
Crazyhorsewest.com
diamond J Gunsmithing
Eagle Creek Custom Etched
Guns-N-Glass
JW Krum Gunsmithing
Ken lane Saddlery
Kona Cowboy Coffee Company
laced
loeffler’s Guns, Et.
los Cuatros tequila posse
Murusky Classic arms
patriot outdoors
precision arms
Sew Whats
tularosa trading post
Zia trading Co
d bar J hat Co.
Emmalee’s Guns and Emporium
housken precision Machine
Sunrise pass arms Co.
tactical patrol Systems
tom’s Guns & Gunsmithing
Western Star leather
hart’s trading post
KJS Gun Shop
Mud Creek Guns & ammo
rosebank Sports
the Scheriff’s Gunshop
Wooden Works West
Bill’s Gun Shop
Cowboy outpost
Gary’s Guns
lauhorner indoor arms & archer
Muddy flatts itd. Sutlers
Mustang Crafters
target World
tatonka dans
the Cowboy & Shooter Supply
tom’s Single action Shop
Vances’ Shooters’ Supply
Vandalia range & armory, inc.
Bookout Enterprises
Cowboy Shooters Supply
Kaw Valley Mercantile
leather, Guns, & Etc.
Smokeys powder Keg inc.
Straight Shot Gunworks, inc.
titonka trading Co.
applegate arsenal
Cheyenne Shirt Company
Elf Enterprises inc
Guncrafters repair llC
Gunns Gunsmithing
Guntraders
h & h firearms & tack
JMS ENtErpriSES
pioneer Gun Works
Shooter’s Service Center
ted Blocker holsters, inc.
the Gun Works
ace Sporting Goods, inc.
allegheny trade Company
americast Bullets
B & J dist. Gun Shop
BS & t Guns inc
Cove Creek outfitters
Cowboy Collectables
dennis a. yoder Custom leather
Enck’s Gun Barn
City
St.
Contact
Phone
STORE NAME
City
St.
raleigh
lexington
raleigh
Castle hayne
asheville
asheville
Kings Mountain
Grandin
Grandin
Bismarck
dickinson
lincoln
Valparaiso
Kimball
Bertrand
la Vista
table rock
Bennet
derry
Nashua
rio rancho
ruidoso
albuquerque
albuquerque
Nogal
rio rancho
rio rancho
alamogordo
ruidoso
ruidoso
Grants
rio rancho
aztec
Clovis
albuquerque
Magdalena
alamogordo
roswell
las Vegas
pahrump
Gardenville
Minden
henderson
Boulder City
Boulder City
Ballston Spa
Bainbridge
Kennedy
Staten island
Gilbersville
pachogue
Waterville
Swanton
fairfield
Springfiled
hamersville
troy
Cinncinatti
Morrow
Barnesville
New lebanon
Columbus
Valdalia
Wewoka
ft. towson
ponca City
Colbert
lawton
Claremore
Salina
Grants pass
Junction City
Bend
Salem
Elkton
redmond
Bend
Grants pass
Springfield
portland
tigard
Springfield
Washington
duncansville
dillsburg
New providence
duryen
Bedford
dillsburg
hamburg
Newmanstown
NC
NC
NC
NC
NC
NC
NC
Nd
Nd
Nd
Nd
NE
NE
NE
NE
NE
NE
NE
Nh
Nh
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NM
NV
NV
NV
NV
NV
NV
NV
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
Ny
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oh
oK
oK
oK
oK
oK
oK
oK
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
pa
dan hopping
Jim henriksen
david plott
don p. alercia
John r. Jackson
phil flack
William poteat
dale Miller
dale Miller
Marlin fried
dr. Melissa Sheppard
terry fitzgerald
philip rezac
tom hewitt
lonnie Meyer
ronald Ewasiuk
Gregg J. Clement
linda Schomerus
allan G. Bacon
Edmond Briand
david E. augustson
lulyn Bratcher
Chuck paolini
douglas Kunz
Wilfred d. pote
Jack d. r. randall
Joseph W. Krum
Ken lane
John K. Shuster
Karen Emerald reeder
david loeffler
George r. Schlegelmilch
ferol l. Murusky
david lester
daniel d. Brovont
Gerry aldridge
douglas McMorris
fred Williams, Jr.
david Johnson
daniel White
George E. housken
harold parks
robert august
tom hawks
Maggie Costanza
William S. hart
Kurt J. Stietz
tracie E. Carlson
James f. Bartiromo
richard G. Scheriff Sr.
thomas Badamo
William ferguson
Michael dawe
Gary Metcalf
penny S. richardson
Will Vockell
louis l. Manning
Joe Blanco
daniel p. app
William E. Mc frederick
tom Wildenauer
James h. McCann
doug hague
Bob Bookout
Joe Brisco
Charles E. powers
William E. Weaver
Burt Ch. Montague
frank taheny
Gerry Wight
Gary hanson
Christene George
Edward E. frye
doug raaf
timothy Gunn
J. W. Koch
del J hamberger
John Saliba
Joe alves
Johnny Semm
Shelley Brown
Joe Williams
George l. romanoff
Mark McNeely
John romito
Joseph huddle
SaSS office
James a. lieto
david lavertue
dennis a. yoder
robert p. Enck
919-848-1441
336-357-7376
919-878-0787
910-620-6979
828-254-1812
828-252-9487
704-739-7037
701-4845773
701-484-5773
701-223-2304
701-483-0169
402-421-3678
402-784-3557
308-235-3330
308-472-1445
402-596-0367
402-429-2277
402-782-6980
603-432-2708
603-888-1717
505-891-1614
575-630-1912
866-306-6969
505-888-4633
505-354-0085
505-994-0546
505-400-0280
575-437-8238
575-257-8593
575-257-2526
505-287-4003
505-994-9622
505-320-2121
575-985-1776
505-883-4342
505-838-6192
505-437-0709
505-622-0023
702-430-0681
775-727-5596
775-782-0211
775-267-2284
800-597-1008
702-293-9574
702-293-3397
518-885-4867
607-967-7296
716-267-7505
718-447-3664
607-783-2666
631-475-5556
419-878-8903
419-875-5270
513-829-8588
937-313-5430
937-379-2317
937-335-1879
513-772-3343
513-932-1021
740-425-3839
937-687-1039
614-471-7353
937-387-0485
405-257-3364
580-873-2663
580-762-3414
580-296-2616
580-355-1901
918-527-7407
918-434-2727
541-474-7281
541-998-6707
541-390-4135
503-362-6197
541-584-2130
541-923-0686
541-382-9352
541-956-1496
541-521-9684
503-289-1280
503-670-7972
541-741-4118
800-660-5470
814-695-3131
717-676-3198
717-786-3947
570-457-1833
814-623-8400
717-432-9676
610-562-8161
717-949-2215
G and J leather
Kenney’s Custom props
lock’s philadelphia Gun Exchange
Montrose Sporting Goods
the Carver Custom holsters By russ
the Smith Shop
ace Systems
Jones
Myrtle Beach indoor Shooting range
the recycled Cowboy Store
Kampeska lodge & Store
austin’s tennessee firearms
Coon dawg Emporium, llC
drew’s Guns Etc.
Gunfighter 928
hamilton dry Goods
Maverick leather
old West Sutler
outrider & Co., Custom leather
rock Creek armory
Smoky Mt outfitter
Sportsmans Supply
terry’s toy’s
true West Mercantile
3B Shooting Supply
a place to Shoot, inc.
americase
Black hills leather
Cowboy Shootin’ Stuff
Cowboy Shooting Store llC
delmark
dry Gulch Mercantile
frontier Sportsman
Gunslinger inc.
hewitt Gun Shop, incorporated
hide Crafter leather Company
Kirkpatrick leather Company
lone rider leather
long hunter Shooting Supply
lopez Brothers Silversmiths lC
los Vaqueros Saddlery
old Scyene
otto Carter Engraver
paul’s pawn Shop
rossi 92 Specialists
Six Shooters
Spirit of the Wind
Steve’s Guns
Sweetshooter Gun Cleaner
texas Jack’s, inc.
texas traders
the General Store
the outdoor Shop of texas
the perfect Shot
two Wright arms Company
ty’s tintypes
Beaver Sport & pawn
hank’s Gun Shop
regency Mint
a & a Supply
degoff’s firearms
frio Canyon outfitters
Gladhatter Sterling Beaver hats
lead Slingers
alder run Shop
Cowboys, Guns and accessories
Crossroads Mercantile, the
desperado Cowboy Bullets, llC
doc Neeley’s Cowboy Guns and Gear
fort Wallula firearms
Montana peak hat Co.
Sagebrush old West
atrisco Spur & Concho Co.
Big lube Bp Supplies
Classic old West arms
Guns of delavan
leather originals
legendary longbows
thunder Shooting Supplies
denny’s Guns & Maps
Elbe arms Co
Guns & Gear, llC
Jug’s toot-N-Shoot
North pole West
rly Enterprises
rocky Mountain discount Sports
rocky Mountain Sports
Stone’s Mercantile
old West Style Store
Western art outfitters
Johnstown
pa
Catasauqua
pa
philadelphia
pa
Montrose
pa
West Grove
pa
Warwick
ri
Jackson
SC
North Myrtle Beach SC
Myrtle Beach
SC
ladson
SC
Watertown
Sd
oak ridge
tN
Church hill
tN
Shelbyville
tN
Erwin
tN
Sparta
tN
afton
tN
Gallatin
tN
Cleveland
tN
lewisburg
tN
Morristown
tN
Covington
tN
East ridge
tN
Jamestown
tN
Kaufman
tX
San antonio
tX
Waxahachie
tX
larwedo
tX
arlington
tX
league City
tX
denton
tX
floresville
tX
abilene
tX
ovilla
tX
hewitt
tX
fort Worth
tX
laredo
tX
Mineola
tX
hartley
tX
Bandera
tX
Krum
tX
Cayuga
tX
abilene
tX
New Boston
tX
port arthur
tX
la Grange
tX
plainview
tX
port arthur
tX
Mineral Wells
tX
fredericksburg
tX
North richland hills tX
Corpus Christi
tX
Kirbyville
tX
fort Worth
tX
Springtown
tX
Mineola
tX
Beaver
ut
Monroe
ut
orem
ut
amherst
Va
Mechanicsville
Va
aldie
Va
Clintwood
Va
Winchester
Va
franklin
Vt
Mill Creek
Wa
Waitsburg
Wa
dayton
Wa
port angeles
Wa
Wallula
Wa
Colville
Wa
Kennewick
Wa
Madison
Wi
Sun praire
Wi
Bonduel
Wi
delavan
Wi
Clear lake
Wi
la Crosse
Wi
Milton
Wi
Cody
Wy
Cheyenne
Wy
Cheyenne
Wy
Green river
Wy
Cody
Wy
Cheyenne
Wy
Cody
Wy
Gillette
Wy
Jackson
Wy
Sinsheim, Germany
rapperswil, Switzerland
Contact
Judy Bowser
Kenneth palkow
John h. lock
ryan Janoski Coy
russell Michels
Bill English
al dichiara
W. Norfleet Jones
ted Gragg
linda l. Blevins
richard M. Wilkey
Earl austin Crow iii
Michael f. Coon
B.a. hopper
Walt Marston
ron hamilton
terrance McCollister
Gary Brandenburg
richard leonard
Ken doherty
Clint Campbell
William Clyatt
terry ray Eischen
Mark Krider
Bryan Buck
Mike Mcdonald
Mars freudenberg
rudy lozano iii
J. l. hamilton
Wolfgang Campbell
david lott
John r. Gafford
Greg riggins
robert Sanders
Charles Smith
George hurst
Mike Kirkpatrick
Jack h. Klepper
Jim B. finch
rick lopez
Bruce Bowers
roger pruitt
otto Carter
William froelich
Steve young
Martin Brummett
Michael r. allen
Steve young
Bill England
Mike harvey
robert Gass
anthony d. Silvis
Jerry Mcdaniel
dan Katra
paul Wright
ty Guillory
Clarence pollard
hank Shows
Crit randy Killen
ronald anderson
Neil atkinson
John M. Kelley
Charlie Swindall
Marcus d. lemasters
Joyce a. Boudreau
robert f. Sluder
linda hermanns
Edwin B. Kemmerer
Jim rogers
Mike larson
richard l. Blackburn
Gary raabe
tom trimble
richard h. rhody
Joseph a. hasser
daniel r. labonne
annie hillman
Gary f. Ellis, Sr.
dennis Garthwaite
dennis p. Benson
robert a. Curran
Steven Spier
Carol lowell
Shirley J. Benson
roger yearick
Jim Mcartor
pete quinnell
James a. Stone
ralf hartmann
Kurt Baumgartner
VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT
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Phone
814-535-1999
610-509-4030
215-332-6225
570-278-3154
610-869-9216
401-921-0147
803-471-2408
843-361-2277
843-293-4344
843-569-7573
605-882-1313
865-272-1023
423-357-6549
931-680-0192
423-743-3580
931-739-6061
423-234-0380
615-452-7463
423-310-1577
931-698-3577
423-317-8040
901-476-2680
423-899-9807
931-752-8272
214-801-4476
210-628-1888
800-972-2737
956-795-0224
817-557-3116
281-751-7024
940-323-0851
210-422-4822
325-690-6411
972-617-6511
254-666-2345
817-878-5797
956-723-6631
903-569-5964
806-365-0093
830-796-4621
214-663-5697
903-477-0138
325-529-3941
903-628-5512
409-984-5473
979-968-3900
806-889-3802
409-984-5473
940-325-2500
830-997-9090
817-428-1322
361-334-1978
409-423-5076
817-332-0190
817-677-2957
903-569-8738
435-438-2100
435-527-4456
801-602-0070
434-946-7668
804-746-0273
703-881-2508
276-926-6423
540-877-1366
802-285-6431
877-777-1735
509-337-9027
866-428-5538
360-452-2800
509-547-5906
509-680-7016
509-585-9306
608-206-7226
608-837-2154
715-758-8380
262-728-6577
715-455-1318
608-787-8726
608-868-4867
307-587-3677
307-634-5731
307-632-4867
307-875-3522
307-527-5008
307-778-9834
307-527-6071
307-686-0221
307-733-3392
0049-7265-7579
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SASS Advertisers Index
2 t Manufacturing ......................... 67
a lot of lead art .......................... 27
action target ................................. 11
adirondack Jack’s trading post .... 93
ammo direct ................................. 45
angels & Moore ............................ 94
antique pocket Watch ................... 95
arntzen Steel target ...................... 39
australian Stock Saddle Co........... 39
Back pocket Guncart ..................... 84
Bar S Grips .................................... 61
Big 45 frontier Gun Shop ............. 94
Bill Johns Master Engraver ........... 25
Bill pippin real Estate .................. 49
Black hills leather ....................... 26
Bond arms..................................... 43
Bozeman trail arms...................... 93
Buffalo arms Company................. 43
Buffalo Western Wear.................... 93
C Sharp arms ................................ 59
Cal Graph....................................... 94
Cart-right Carts............................. 93
Cattle Kate ..................................... 63
Champion attitude Boots .............. 30
Chey - Cast Bullets........................ 93
Chronicle of the old West ............. 81
Circle fly Wads ............................. 85
Circle KB leatherworks................ 58
Cobra Enterprises .......................... 62
Cochise leather Company ............ 43
Competition Electronics .................. 7
Cowboy fast draw association .... 15
Creations by Graham..................... 93
d Bar J hat Company ................... 76
d.J reigel hand Engraving........... 93
d.S. Welding.................................. 25
diamond J. Gunsmithing............... 94
dillon precision ............................. 63
dixie Gun Works ........................... 64
El paso Saddlery.............................. 8
El paso Saddlery............................ 61
Electronic Shooters protection ...... 39
Elite Sports Express....................... 33
EMf Company ................................ 7
EMf Company .............................. 15
EMf Company .............................. 21
EMf Company .............................. 57
Enck’s Gun Barn ........................... 94
Espinoza Bootmaker...................... 95
Evil roy Shooting School ............. 22
folkwear ........................................ 94
frontier Gun leather ....................... 4
Golden Gate Western Wear ........... 45
Griner Gunworks ........................... 94
Grip Maker .................................... 94
Gunbroker.com .............................. 29
Guns of the old West .................. 65
hamilton drygoods ....................... 93
harrison leather Works................. 95
hoplite, inc. ................................... 93
i.M. Cowgirl .................................. 34
interstate arms............................... 48
iversen’s Custom holsters
& Chaps...................................... 93
James & Guns................................ 77
Jaxonbilt hat Co ............................ 69
Jeff flannery .................................. 94
Jim downing Custom Engraver .... 77
JMB distribution ........................... 94
Jose Valencia Studio ...................... 93
Kaw Valley Mercantile .................. 94
Kirkpatrick leather ....................... 23
laughing Moon Mercantile........... 94
legacy Sports international........... 24
liberty leather .............................. 95
lindhom Bros. Spurs..................... 45
lone rider leather........................ 95
long hunter Shooting Supply....... 37
Mernickle Custom holsters........... 38
Midland radio Corporation........... 48
Mike’s Custom hatters .................. 65
Moore ranch ................................. 95
Mounted Shooters of america....... 57
Munden Enterprises ...................... 25
Mustang Woodcrafters................... 27
Nra............................................... 85
Nutmeg Sports ............................... 93
off the Wall .................................. 76
oklahoma leather products .......... 93
old river Saddlery ........................ 95
old Slapout holsters ..................... 94
oregon trail Bullet Company ....... 12
padens posse.................................. 86
perfect Shot, the ........................... 95
pioneer Gun Works........................ 10
powder inc..................................... 95
redding reloading ........................ 58
redwing trading ........................... 93
reloads N More............................. 95
revi technical Wear...................... 21
richard E. leach(wanted c/c) ....... 95
rim rock Bullets, inc. .................. 93
river Junction trade Co................ 29
rocking r Enterprises................... 94
rodney yates insurance ................ 95
rossi 92’ Specialists ...................... 93
rugged Gear .................................. 47
running Buffalo ............................ 93
rusty Musket Enterprises.............. 95
ruxton’s trading post ................... 94
SaSS - Bronze Marshal ................ 34
SaSS - Buffalo Stampede ............. 13
SaSS - Corporate Membership... 102
SaSS - Eot 2010 ......................... 51
SaSS - End of trail 2009
Merchandise ................................17
SaSS - End of trail 2008 dVd.... 55
SaSS - Evil roy dVd Series ....... 14
SaSS - how to Spin toy Guns
dVd ........................................... 81
SaSS - Match Management .......... 55
SaSS - Membership
application ............................... 103
SaSS - MErCaNtilE ................ 87
SaSS - MErCaNtilE ................ 88
SaSS - MErCaNtilE ................ 89
SaSS - MErCaNtilE ................ 90
SaSS - MErCaNtilE ................ 91
SaSS - MErCaNtilE ................ 92
SaSS - MErCaNtilE ................ 93
SaSS - Mounted Mercantile ......... 56
SaSS - pouch ................................ 36
SaSS - ruger Vaquero .................. 18
SaSS - Shooting Stars of the
Small Screen............................... 80
SaSS - Winners Buckle ................ 19
Sassdecals.com .............................. 66
Smoke in the Woods...................... 81
Speedbump Stockworks ................ 62
Star packer Badges ........................ 93
Starline Brass................................... 9
Stoeger industries ............................ 3
Sturm, ruger & Co........................ 31
taylors & Company .................... 104
tecumseh trdg post ...................... 95
ted Blocker holsters .................... 95
texas historical Society ................ 86
texas Jack’s ................................... 20
texican rangers ............................ 81
tic-toc doc ................................... 94
true West Mercantile .................... 94
unique tek .................................... 69
Western and Wildlife Wonders ....... 6
Western Stage props ...................... 94
Wild West Mercantile ...................... 2
Wooden Works West...................... 67
Working Cowboy Gun
leather Shop .............................. 95
WWha.......................................... 80
Xcalibers, inc., reloading
products ...................................... 47
December 2009

December 2009

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